On Mar 7, 2010, at 09:36, Bob Cronin wrote: > I'm soooo there with you! > -- > bc > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: > >> Rick Troth wrote: >>> You also said ... >>>> I hate EBCDIC! >> >> Indeed. I often say that when I finish my time machine, I'm going back to >> fix the ASCII-EBCDIC rift before it happens. (Also null-terminated strings, >> but that's later.) Anyone who wants to go with me, let me know. >> Me, too, on the null-terminated strings; an inexhaustible source of avenues for malware exploitation. Besides making substring slicing needlessly difficult and requiring scans to determine string length. PostScript, e.g. got it right.
z/OS Unix System Services showed unexpected wisdom in eschewing null-terminated strings in its BPX1* Assembler system calls, even at the expense of requiring conversion in the C runtime library. -- gil
