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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] C, Ada, Oberon
On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 08:09:16AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Kevin Chadwick via Dng said on Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:03:31 +0100
> (GMT+01:00)
>
>
> >Robert Dewar once said that Ada has better support for pointer
> >arithmetic than C.
>
> I took an assembler class from Robert Dewar once at Illinois Institute
> of Technology. Back in those days I was nowhere near smart enough to
> keep up with the class. I'd love to take it now, but of course, Dr.
> Dewar is no longer teaching.


Robert Dewar died a few years ago, I'm sorry to say.

-- hendrik