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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/03
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In article <391082D9.14A9D91A@online.no>,
  "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> wrote:
> 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.

When I was first starting with C I had loads of problems with missing or
overwritten string terminators causing my programs to go off into la-la
land. It still happens to me on occasion.

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