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From: aland@servio.slc.com (Alan Darlington)
Subject: Re: Advantages of Smalltalk over Java
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davidsutra@aol.com (DavidSutra) writes:
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> You also left out another interesting fact: Java has no pointers. So it's
> pretty different from C, C++ and Smalltalk, too, in that regard. Is this a
> weakness or a plus?

Smalltalk doesn't have pointers either (i.e. all pointers are internal
to the interpreter, and a user cannot monkey with them).  Definitely a
plus for any language, IMO.  :-)

  Cheers,
  Alan
