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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:   
   > Algol68 doesn't crash. It gives a run time error of the type   
      
   Well that's what I mean by crashing.  The program is terminated   
   "involuntarily", or alternatively there is some way to catch the exception.   
   Either way, the computation doesn't proceed.   
      
   > You can't get much help from the compiler for uninitialised references   
   > like this. Either it crashes in the first run or it is insidious.   
      
   No idea about Algol68 but in (at least some) other languages, the idea   
   of having references instead of pointers is that it is impossible to   
   create an uninitialised reference.   
      
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