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A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Wed Sep 6 01:54:55 EDT 2017 
Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:

> On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 3:34:41 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Pointer arithmetics is not an essential part of C. One could argue that
>> it was a mistake to include it in the language.
>
> This is subjective of course… but still I wonder where you are coming from…
>
> You of course know that writing Unix was the genesis and raison d'être
> for C right?
>
> And what is an OS but a thin layer of abstraction on top of bare ISP?
> ie is not a Linux-OS just an x86 hw + some new ‘instructions’ called
> system-calls?

BASIC doesn't have any pointers at all, but it has PEEK and POKE.


Marko
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