Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Peter J. Holzer, post: 4872090"] I started with BASIC (think early 1980's here - line numbers and goto), then did a little bit of Pascal and assembly (6502 and Z80) before learning C. Seeing the similarities between assembly and C has been a real eye opener for me - suddenly I understood Pascal pointers (which even more restrictive than Perl references). Actually, C pointers are quite ok in theory (for example, you can't make a pointer into an array point outside of the array (except "just after" it). The problem is that (almost) all C compilers omit the necessary run-time checks for performance reasons and because of binary compatibility constraints (you would need "fat pointers" to implement them). Yup. That one is very haphazard and seriously dated. Me, too. hp [/QUOTE]