[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/10/2019 2:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/10/19 1:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/10/2019 9:34 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 7/9/19 10:37 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> * no string type
>>>
>>> So what?  What's so great about a string type?  Fortran
>>> didn't have it until 77.  Pascal didn't have it until UCSD.
>>
>> Neither Fortran 77 nor UCSD Pascal are recent.
>>
>> :-)
> 
> And neither is C.

True.

But while Fortran and Pascal fixed the problem, then C
did not.

Even C++ sort of fixed the problem. They added STL std::string.
Even though a lot of C++ code still use the C style null
terminated arrays.

Arne