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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-04-13 14:16, 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 know. EBCDIC was despised by most back in the 80s for a reason...
Anyway, my examples were dealing with digits, which do have the property 
of being a contiguous unbroken sequence even in EBCDIC...

But in general, EBCDIC will require that people do much more coding that 
is very character set aware for some problems. Miserable in general.

   Johnny