Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!news.uni-mainz.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!news From: Thomas Kuehne Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Simula Reference Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:22:50 +0100 Organization: TU Darmstadt Lines: 39 Message-ID: <314FF89A.52BFA1D7@informatik.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun44.isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) I have not been able to find a Simula newsgroup or a different source of information of Simula. As Beta inherits from Simula, I hope someone reading this newsgroup may help me. I would like to check, whether Simula67 had a special assignment statement ':-' for pointers. If true, why did Beta drop this concept? I found the following reference, but do not know how to actually get the paper. @TechReport{Dahl67a, author = "O.-J. Dahl and K. Nygaard", title = "{Simula Begin}", institution = "Norsk Regnesentral (Norwegian Computing Center)", year = "1967", address = "Oslo/N", } I have access to the HOPL proceedings, but the contained article about Simula does not talk about a pointer assignment statement. Greetings, Thomas +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Thomas Kuehne | | Institut fuer Systemarchitektur | | Fachgebiet praktische Informatik Tel.: 06151/165420 | | Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Fax.: 06151/165472 | | Magdalenenstr. 11c kuehne@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de | | D-64289 Darmstadt http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~kuehne | | "The more you know, the more you know what you don't know." | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+