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

[bill]

On 4/13/2023 8:16 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.)
> 

I think they do it mostly by not using C.  :-)

bill