[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.
Bill Gunshannon
bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 13:14:43 EST 2022
On 2/3/22 12:48, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 2/3/2022 12:11 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
>> Believe it or not, some of us still fail to see why null terminated
>> strings are such a problem. Time to stop blaming a feature of the
>> language for the incompetence of some programmers.
>
> For one thing, it prevents a character value of zero in a string.
>
>
And, in my 50 years of doing this stuff I have never run into a case
where that was a problem. Go figure.
bill
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