From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/04
Date: 2000-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umq3dnypmds.fsf@gong2.clustra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8en5o9$ihe$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> 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....
>
> --
> T.E.D.
Yes, but the C standard library *is* there. The Ada 95 string packages
aren't there in Ada 83.
>
> http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html
>
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-02 0:00 C vs. Ada - strings Wes Groleau
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-18 0:00 ` Pete
2000-05-18 0:00 ` dale
2000-05-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-19 0:00 ` dale
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Keith Thompson
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img dmitry
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Brian Rogoff
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-19 0:00 ` C vs. Ada - strings Geoff Bull
2000-05-19 0:00 ` mike
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Ted Dennison
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-05 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-03 0:00 ` C vs. Ada - strings Ken Garlington
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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