[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <7if6l2F30a3ujU2 at mid.individual.net>,
 Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:

> By 'quality', I meant well written, i.e. properly laid out, commented, 
> maintainable. It works OK!

The thing that raised warning signals with me once I saw the NT APIs was 
the dependence on null terminated strings.  I'd spent a lot of time in 
VMS applications eradicating those by adding a length parameter or using 
descriptors.

And when CPU was the limiting factor, I didn't see the point of scanning 
a string parameter to find the terminating null when the calling routine 
knew the length of the string in the first place.

-- 
Paul Sture