Re: null terminated strings

In article <ops475q2k4zgicya@hyrrokkin>, "Tom Linden" <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:03:47 -0500, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
The advantage of C over assembly isn't platform independance (but this
is one big one), but rather productivity.

Likewise the advantage of high level language over C.

Generally, the higher the language, the less the versatility and ability
to easily do system level stuff.
Nonsense, there is nothing you can do in C that I can't do better in PL/I
(sound a like a musical:-)

There's nothing you can do in C that I haven't done in Fortran, but
I can't give Fortran credit for it. It was the power of VAX Fortran
extensions and VMS routines that allowed me to do it.

And I've been suprprized that I can't readily do some of the things
in ANSI Fortran-90 that I did using VAX Fortran extensions.

.

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