On 2018-01-30, at 06:27:02, Tom Marchant wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:46:20 +0000, Jon Perryman wrote: > >> Unix lacks the robust MVS features because of the C language > > I am not a fan of C, but I don't believe that any of the shortcomings > of Unix are properly attributed to the C language. > Which of the two is to blame for null-terminated strings? (Or was it BCPL?)
Note that the OMVS BPX* syscalls do not use null-terminated strings as arguments. The C RTL functions are wrappers that perform the conversion. -- gil
