From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f868292008c639ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings Date: 2000/05/03 Message-ID: <391082D9.14A9D91A@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618827605 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3910642C.19587F27@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 957383380 130.67.225.169 (Wed, 03 May 2000 21:49:40 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 21:49:40 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > > Perhaps one needs to clarify "C strings are ... painful to work with." > > I agree. BUT, as clumsy as the C string functions are, at least they > existed. Ada 83 had NO standard string handling features. And despite how limited they are supposed to be people seem to be able to do all sorts of interesting things with them. Somehow I think the C strings and I got along fairly well. It is about the only thing in C which I didn't routinely screw up on. I happily admit that from a computer science point of view they are not wonderful, but they work. Stangely enough they work remarkably well. At least for me. Greetings,