[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:17:31 +0200, P. Sture wrote:

> In article <7if6l2F30a3ujU2 at mid.individual.net>,
>  Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
>> By 'quality', I meant well written, i.e. properly laid out, commented,
>> maintainable. It works OK!
> 
> The thing that raised warning signals with me once I saw the NT APIs was
> the dependence on null terminated strings.  I'd spent a lot of time in
> VMS applications eradicating those by adding a length parameter or using
> descriptors.
> 
> And when CPU was the limiting factor, I didn't see the point of scanning
> a string parameter to find the terminating null when the calling routine
> knew the length of the string in the first place.

I think that's inevitable when the major language in use is C. That's a 
design issue; I was thinking more of how well the code was (not) written.



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