On 31/01/2018 3:43 AM, Jon Perryman wrote:
Tom Marchant wrote:
Well, ok, null-terminated strings are a booby-trap
included in the C language. But it was poor programming that caused the
problems.
I'm not sure how strings could be attributed to poor programming. Unix & C were
designed and implemented around RISC processors. Instructions are limited to
dealing with a single byte. In this situation, strings are far more optimal
compared to fix length fields. IBM hardware changed that by implementing
instructions like CLC and MVC.
The MVC and CLC instructions of the IBM /360 came years before
Unix and C.
And I understand that RISC processors came long after C.
