[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/10/19 2:21 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/10/2019 2:10 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 7/10/19 11:40 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 7/10/2019 9:34 AM, Bill Gunshannon 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.
>>>
>>> Strings are vital in some applications.  Perhaps not in number 
>>> crunching.  Try a name and address without strings.  Maybe you'll be 
>>> cleaver enough to use GPS coordinates for the address, but for the name?
>>>
>>> Try writing a compiler without strings.
>>
>> Nobody said there shouldn't be strings.  You are free to declare
>> any type pf string you want in C.  null-terminated, descriptor,
>> counted, whatever you want.  Decide what is best for your use
>> and create it.  The programmer is tied to only one type of string.
> 
> But then all the details of the handling fall on the
> programmer.
> 
> Giving the programmer lots of extra opportunities to
> get it wrong.

Maybe we should just kill all the programmers!!

bill