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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/03
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Paul Graham a �crit dans le message <391060A6.7ABCDCFE@cadence.com>...
>Pascal Obry wrote:
>> Even to compare two strings you have to write:
>>    if (strcmp (name1, name2) == 0) {
>>       ...
>> I do prefer:
>>    if name1 = name2 then
>>       ...
>
>Just because the standard library provides a somewhat unreadable
>function like strcmp doesn't mean you have to use it directly.  In C you


That was not my point. The problem is not the name, the problem is that
C does not have a string type so there is no operator on them =, <, >, :=
and no attribute 'Length, 'Last, 'First...

So, we can't even compare strings in Ada and C!

Pascal.

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