On 11/05/2015 10:23, Martin Brown wrote:
The world might have been a much better place if the early CPU address
space had been too big to fit into an integer so that C could not use
integers and pointers quite so interchangeably.

s/C/poor programmers/

Some of us have always known better. (But then the Dec10 I first used
for assembler had 18-bit addresses and 36-bit integers)

Andy