[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/11/19 7:13 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <gondhdFaeelU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>> 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!!
> 
>    -- William Gunshannon Shakespeare! :P
> 

I wondered who would catch the reference.  :-)

bill