[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Wed May 30 14:18:57 EDT 2012


JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:

>> be the explanation for why many C programers today are unable to wrap
>> their brains around record processing (most always want to open a file
>> with "fopen()" then produce stream i/o)

> or just read the whole file in memory instead of only reading the
> records they need.

I have seen that done in just about every language.

As memory gets bigger, more and more will do it, as they can
get away with it longer.

-- glen



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