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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/04
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In article <wccg0s066nn.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> But surely not as compared to C!  If you say Ada strings suck
compared
> to, say, Java or Smalltalk or Common Lisp, I could agree.  But
C strings
> are far worse than Ada strings in pretty much every regard.
Even just
> Ada 83!


Strings in Ada are too boring, it's much more exciting to code
in a language where

  if ("abc" == "abc")

has implementation dependent semantics, and keeps you in
suspense on the outcome :-)

At least I think it's impl dependent -- perhaps I remembered
wrong, and it's always false :-)



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