Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Sep 2024, 03:43:07
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:04 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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On 24/09/2024 23:36, Peter Flass wrote:
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C is just pathetic at character strings.
Not really.
They are clearly defined entities and you could construct any routines
to manipualate them you liked
That’s like saying Assembler is great at handling strings. You cam write
routines to do whatever you want.
Yes it is exactly like that. Do you think that is somehow refuting the
point?
Another thing PL/I got from COBOL is “natural” string handling. Assign a
short string to a larger any the result is automatically blank-padded.
That kind of misfeature is only needed in the sad world of non-dynamic,
fixed-length strings ...
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