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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 04/11/2016 17:17, Gareth Owen wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> Except this is not the abstract model that I want to use when
>>> coding. I don't think I'm the only one either.
>>
>> Name three people who agree with you.
>
> A list or array data structure, with the ability to randomly access
> any element, has been common in programming since the fifties.

That doesn't answer the question