Op Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:06:34 -0700, schreef Dennis Lee Bieber: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:37:43 GMT, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed > the following in comp.lang.python: > >> 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?
Pointers in Borland's Pascal (and FreePascal) are bare machine pointers, 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...) -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
