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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 29/08/2019 04:36, Melzzzzz wrote:
[...]
>> Rust is nowhere near C. Actually, nowhere near C++. It is nice language,
>> but not for low level programming. During years they ditched GC and most
>> of the things that cripples determinism and performance, it is ok, but
>> without pointer arithmetic and null pointers it is high level language.
>> Having to convert pointer to int and back in order to perform arithmetic
>> is worse that doing it in assembler.
>
> That sounds terrible.  (I am not very familiar with Rust.)

What's terrible about it?  Rust doesn't particularly need pointer
arithmetic; unlike C, it's array indexing isn't defined in terms of
pointers.  

[...]

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */