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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-04-13, bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.  :-)
>

Times change. :-) z/OS has a C compiler and now runs open source software.

Simon.

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