[Info-vax] C limitations, was: Re: VMS process communication

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-04-12, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> but I'd say that is less common, and a bad programmer will always manage 
> to write bad code, no matter what language. That don't mean the language 
> is bad. It is just more unclear, and in C there is no performance 
> reason, or anything else giving any reason why you would write 48, when 
> '0' is so much clearer what the intent is. And then it also works if you 
> use another character set, as long as all the digits have consecutive 
> code points.
>

I wonder how the EDCDIC people handle this and your other examples ? :-)

(A-Z is not a contiguous unbroken sequence in EBCDIC.)

Simon.

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