On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:23:03PM +0800, eric pareja wrote:
> As a computer scientist, you should be able to implement the data
> structures in any given language, even as low level as you can go. After
> all, they are abstractions. 


lots of good points have been stated, but if I may add, doing C and pointers
is necessary to do systems-level programming... nothing like having to
explicitly malloc() and free() your memory, and segfaulting from writing
to random pieces of core ;)

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