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[MJackson.Wbst: Why Your Pascal and Modula-2 Programs Don't Work]
- To: Guy.Steele@CMU-CS-A.ARPA
- Subject: [MJackson.Wbst: Why Your Pascal and Modula-2 Programs Don't Work]
- From: JonL.pa@XEROX.ARPA
- Date: Tue ,11 Sep 84 15:17:00 EDT
- Cc: Bug-Lisp@MIT-MC.ARPA,Lisp-Forum@MIT-MC.ARPA,LispCore^.pa@XEROX.ARPA
- Reply-to: JonL.pa@XEROX.ARPA
The classic fencepost bug?
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 84 11:02 EDT
From: MJackson.Wbst
Subject: Why Your Pascal and Modula-2 Programs Don't Work
To: AllWhimsy^.ES
cc: Modula-2^.ES, ProcessTechnology^
Reply-To: MJackson.Wbst
"In an array, individual elements are readily identified by means of a
computed index, which represents a position in the sequence of elements.
The address of the fifth element, for example, is simply the address of
the first element plus five times the size of an element."
-- Niklaus Wirth in the September /Scientific American/
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