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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/02
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In article <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>,
  Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote:
>
> > In fact, C-style strings are quite primitive, and quite painful to work
> > with, even compared to Ada 83 strings.
>
> Two offices adjoining mine are occupied by persons
> fond of saying "Ada strings suck"  Much as I prefer
> Ada in general, if it weren't for the Ada 95 string
> packages, I'd have to agree with them on this point.

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

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