[Info-vax] Any Way to Pass Arrays of Strings from C to Basic?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/7/2019 11:40 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 9:11:46 PM UTC-6, Craig Dedo wrote:
>> The inventory system for managing the inventories at the
>> dealerships is a home-grown system called the Dealer Inventory
>> Alliance (DIA).  It is written in C and uses 6 different RDBMSes
>> for its data storage. >>
>> Why is DIA written in C?  Ask Roland Hughes, aka, seasoned_geek.
>> The old-timers told me that he made that decision.
goto tech:

> Nope.
 >
> Accenture and The Gartner Group whispering into the ears of upper
> management declared BASIC "non-strategic".
tech:

> The only portion which needed to be in C was the piece which
> originally called Xerces XML parser which was, at the time heavily
> supported by IBM. There was a correct decision all XML parsing should
> be done by an industry standard library. Xerces then got used by many
> other systems at the company. Management didn't want a one-off
> roll-your-own parser they would have to support for decades so it was
> a legitimate decision. The industry standard library would be
> continually updated and supported given the heavyweights behind it.
I am a little confused.

Xerces is a C++ library - not a C library.

And very C++ish.

Arne