> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olin Lathrop [SMTP:olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:06 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]: BCD time-of-day addition
>
> > String handling and arrays would be impossible to use without
> > pointers.
>
> FORTRAN did both these things without pointers.
>
Perhaps from the programmers perspective but surely pointers were used
"under the hood".  There is simply no way that I can thik of to perform
array and string operations without pointers.

Regards

Mike

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