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From: scc@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re:  Re: Garbage Collection & ADTs
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Date: 27 Sep 89 09:24:49 GMT
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Andrew P. Mullhaupt writes:
>> In this newsgroup, we find other programmers arguing that
>> programmers should have no direct use for pointers, and so the
>> language can determine the correct lifetime of dynamic data.

Bill Wolfe replies:
> Not exactly.  The argument is that pointers should only be 
> used by ADT implementors, not by application programmers.

Some of the best designed programing languages don't have explicit 
pointers at all!!  CLU, Eiffel and ML are good examples.

-- Steve