On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:33:10 +0200 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 February 2012 17:09, Alan Condit <acon...@ipns.com> wrote: > > > Gee, I bet that news would surprise Kernigan and Ritchie. I've been > > using strings in 'C' since 1977. So much of K&R C was almost a 1:1 correspondence with PDP-11 machine instructions. :-) > > No, you have been using arrays of chars, and an external library to do > even simple things like compare two strings to see if they match. > > I am not saying that C can't process textual data, but it certainly > has no built in types for strings. Whereas, Pascal does. OT ... I'm it is rumored that really fast code is produced by writing in Pascal then using p2c to translate to C before compiling. Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
