[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Dave Froble]

On 7/10/2019 8:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

I thought your name was Bill, not Alexander ....

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