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- From: dwnoon@ibm.net
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- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:07:30 GMT
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- In <Pine.A32.3.91.960226004311.19148B-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu>, The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> writes:
- >strings and I haven't run into any trouble yet. For that matter, you
- >could declare an array of longs or Pascal-like strings with length bytes
- >at the beginning and whip up a set of routines to treat those as strings.
- >That's the advantage of a language which _doesn't_ have string features
- >built in. :)
-
- There is nothing to stop you from doing this in PL/I too. It's just that you
- don't need to. ... :-)
-
- Regards
-
- Dave
- <Team PL/I>
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