Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:53:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Pete Ehlke <pde-isp-dns@rfc822.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd daemon chick wallpaper?? Message-ID: <3EF0A71E.648498C8@mindspring.com> References: <3EF061D9.7000609@potentialtech.com> <20030618165119.GA31988@rfc822.net> <20030618173637.GB32151@rfc822.net>
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Pete Ehlke wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:25:26PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > confused by pointers doesn't mean she can't write useful code. I mean, many > > of the high-level languages don't even use pointers, right? > > I've heard this, as well. I don't trust any of them. They use pointers. They just don't let *you* use pointers. Mostly because their smarmy designers believe they are smarter than all their users -- after all, if you were smart enough to use pointers, you would have written your own high level language that doesn't permit people less intelligent than you to use pointers and thus screw up software you might want to run some day... 8-) 8-). -- Terry
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