> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: 30 January 2018 16:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM > > 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
B used null terminated strings... Dave
