[TUHS] Is C obsolete? (was Re: [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view)

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 2:29 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:16 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A null-terminated array of char is a petri dish.  A proper string type is
>> more like a disinfectant.
>>
> Hrrmpt.... maybe (in theory), but I can say that never seen it really work
> in practice --  bwk in Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language
> <http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html> describes much of the
> practical realities of this sort of choice:
>

I think language designers since Pascal have learned from Pascal's mistake
there.

Supposedly even Borland's TurboPascal had better strings than vanilla
Pascal.
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