What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> |
> | (Unfortunately, you can hardly write interesting programs in any safe
> | subset of C.)
>
> Fortunately, some people do, as living job.

I don't think so. Maybe the question is what a "safe subset" consists
of. In my book, it excludes all features that are potentially unsafe.
So in particular, C-style pointers are out, because they can easily
dangle, be uninitialisied, whatever. Can you write a realistic C
program without using pointers?

- Andreas