On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no> wrote: > > At this point consider whether it's possible to implement Pascal in Haskell. > > If it is possible, then you have a problem wrt. drawing conclusions about > pointers in Pascal, uh oh, they apparently can't exist. > > But if it is not possible to implement Pascal in Haskell, then Haskell must > be some etremely limited special-purpose language, not Turing complete -- > is that acceptable to you? > <quote> >
You're actually just proving his point here. It doesn't matter what model Haskell uses, a version of Pascal implemented in Haskell has pointers. Likewise, regardless of what model the implementation of Python uses, Python itself doesn't have pointers, it has objects and names. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
