Yes.
I dropped the same message into a C newsgroup. Some of the people
recognized the problem, but essentially they don't care, I think. I
guess if you have heaps of computing power at your fingertips in the way
of Linux boxes, and if they aren't doing the same sort of work as most
Z/OS shops, it doesn't matter much.
They have made a judgment that what they have is great. And judgments
stop you receiving. They build walls around you so nothing
(information, money whatever) can come to you.
Speaking of which, I intend to say something about IBM's behaviour about
Flex, Hercules etc. I am trying to choose my words carefully - very
carefully....
Ce la vie,
Clem
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
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.
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