And yet Knuth wrote TeX with virtually no pointers, because he didn’t trust the dynamic memory allocators in many Pascal implementations (probably from bitter experience). So he used array indices as s substitute for pointers.
Andy > On Jan 2, 2019, at 3:13 AM, Chris FractalBach <[email protected]> wrote: > > "I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among > computer science's "most valuable treasures."" > Donald Knuth, Structured Programming with go to Statements > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
