On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:37:43 GMT, Jan Claeys <us****@janc.bedeclaimedPointers in Borland's Pascal (and FreePascal) are bare machine pointers,
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>Later I learned C (and even later C++), and I've always been wondering
why those languages were making simple things so complicated...
Could it be that they are closer to being high-level assembly
languages meant to get close to the hardware (especially of the PDP
series that C originated on), whereas Pascal was designed to just be a
language meant for teaching algorithms and programming, not originally
intended for production efforts?
with optional typing for the referenced value; I've never seen anything
you could do with C pointers that you couldn't do with Borland Pascal
pointers. (And I think the reason why pointers in C looked complicated
is that the C syntax for pointers is inconsistent...)
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JanC
