On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:24:08PM -0800, Darren New wrote:
David Brown wrote:
The difference between references and pointers is that a language with
references will only allow you to assign those references to valid things.
Pointers can be arbitrarily manipulated.
Then the C standard says C doesn't have pointers.
But, technically "standard" C isn't useful as a low-level hardware
manipulation language.
People resort to C for pointer manipulation because the language allows
pointers to be arbitrarily manipulated.
To be honest, I don't quite understand the C interpreters. Yes, it's the C
standard, but it isn't what many programs do. If you're going to
interpret, why not pick a better language?
Dave
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