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From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
Date: 6 Oct 2001 03:44:01 GMT
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:54:35 -0500, Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote:
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> 
> David Starner wrote:
>> But that's not what he said. He said that C++ didn't have strings. And
>> whether or not you like the way C++ handles it, it does have strings.
> 
> Matter of mismatching definitions.  C has what C defines as strings.
> It does not have what many languages define as strings.


 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (06 Jun 01) [foldoc]:

  string
  
     <programming> A sequence of {data} values, usually {bytes},
     which usually stand for {characters} (a "character string").
     [...]

I'm sure other definitions can be offered, but when they're offered
_here_ in order to say that C/C++ doesn't have strings, it just sounds
like language bigotry. C has string literals, and C has character arrays
that map to strings and a set of functions that treat them like strings.
For the programmer, C has strings, no matter what a computer science
theoretician might say. Honest evidence will get us a lot farther than
random slams at other languages.

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