Carlo Pescio interviews Niklaus Wirth
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pg.56
CP: .........
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.......in many cases C++ programmers would be happy to use a safer
vewrsion of the langauage .... where pointers and arrays are clearly
separated ,, where you get a warning when .... you assign a floating
point to a long integer ...
NW: ....One may ... wonder why none has made ... a safe subset of C++ ...
such attempt are bound to fail .. like the attempts to strengthen a house
built on sand ...
CP: ... what about Java?
NW: ... Java's fame is due to massive p.r. ...
(of course there are plugs for Pascal, Modula<N> and Oberon)