In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/13/2007
at 03:11 PM, Clem Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Some 20 years ago, it became clear that C strings were not as safe,
>nor as fast, as strings in PL/I, Assembler or Pascal.
The same applies to C arrays in general. The confusion between arrays
and pointers, and the lack of bounds checking, appalled me three
decades ago, and everything that I have seen since has confirmed my
original judgment.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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