[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <c+EmAKuu74DO at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7irdntF32vm9nU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> And, it is once again necessary to point out that Unix didn't invent
>> the "null terminated string".
> 
>    I didn't see anyone claim it did.  I also didn't see anyone claim C
>    did.  I just don't see the logic in choosing it when a simple data
>    structure seems to work better.  Even PASCAL seemed to choose a
>    less intensive approach.
 
And as has been pointed out the method normally used by Pascal has
serious shortcomings and just bout all of the Pascal compilers I
have ever used included a way to turn of range and bounds checking
allowing for the exact same dangers as C'c null terminated strings.
Seems a lot of people saw that as a necessary evil.

bill

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