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From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/03
Date: 2000-05-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <391061AF.A15CE59C@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8en5o9$ihe$1@nnrp1.deja.com


> "if it weren't for the ...string packages"? Without the string handling
> functions in C's standard library, C strings suck even worse....

Correct.  But the original statement was something like "even Ada 83
strings are better than C strings."  When criticizing C, it's not fair
to criticize it for what it is when you take away its standard
libraries.
Throughout my Ada-83 career, I have had to make extensive use of 
home-brewed code very similar to the Ada 95 sting packages.  If for some
perverted reason, I insisted on doing low-level character-twiddling all
over the place, I would have persuaded a lot of people that C is better
than Ada.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-05-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-02  0:00 C vs. Ada - strings Wes Groleau
2000-05-02  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-18  0:00       ` Pete
2000-05-18  0:00         ` dale
2000-05-18  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-19  0:00             ` dale
2000-05-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-22  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-22  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-24  0:00                 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-24  0:00                   ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-24  0:00                     ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-25  0:00                       ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-25  0:00                       ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-25  0:00                         ` 'img Keith Thompson
2000-05-25  0:00                           ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-26  0:00                         ` 'img dmitry
2000-05-26  0:00                           ` 'img Brian Rogoff
2000-05-26  0:00                             ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-26  0:00                           ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-19  0:00         ` C vs. Ada - strings Geoff Bull
2000-05-19  0:00           ` mike
2000-05-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-03  0:00           ` Pete
2000-06-03  0:00             ` Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Ted Dennison
2000-06-04  0:00               ` Pete
2000-06-04  0:00                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-04  0:00                   ` Pete
2000-06-05  0:00                     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-05  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-05  0:00                   ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-05  0:00                     ` David Botton
2000-06-05  0:00                       ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-06  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-06-06  0:00                   ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-06  0:00                     ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-04  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-06-03  0:00             ` C vs. Ada - strings Ken Garlington
2000-06-03  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-04  0:00                 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-06-04  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-04  0:00   ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Gautier
2000-05-02  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-06  0:00       ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-04  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05  0:00           ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-05  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-06  0:00           ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-06  0:00             ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-07  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09  0:00                 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-02  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-05  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
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