Quote: CLR supports unsafe code, tail calls, user-defined value types, enumerations, unsigned ints, variable length arguments, pointer arithmetic, global variables, private scope, function pointers, call-by-reference, multidim arrays, pinned objects

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[The CLR includes features specifically for supporting multiple languages, These features are not fully supported by Java.] Unsafe code … Supporting unsafe code allows programmers to perform unverifiable … … Tail calls Languages such as Scheme require implementations … constant space [ref]. … User-defined value types Many programming languages … require the ability to declare and use data … Enumerations … Unsigned integers … Variable length argument lists … Pointer arithmetic … Global variables … Private scope .. [i.e.] globally accessible within the … By-reference parameters … Multidimensional arrays … Pinned objects [at fixed memory locations].   Google-1   Google-2

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