Darren New wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
The programmers of the future won't be using languages that have
pointers. Look at Java, Python, Perl, TCL/TK (Hi Lan!), PHP,
Javascript, Erlang, Haskell, Ruby, and many of the other new and
experimental languages coming out. NONE of the new languages have
pointers.
Errr, no. Python, Java, Javascript and Ruby all have pointers. Probably
erlang as well, but I don't know that one yet, and possibly Perl for
some meaning of the word "pointer". Not Haskell or Tcl, because they're
both value-only languages, in essence.
Please explain your concept of a pointer. To me it is a reference to a
memory location like in C. As a programmer you can abuse it at will.
None of the languages I mentioned meet that definition.
Also lacking pointers: FORTRAN, COBOL, APL. :-) Seeing a pattern here?
No. Should I contact Mensa?
Gus
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