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- From: VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:55:44 -0600
- Organization: LUMC
- Message-ID: <AD5B28A096683BDAC@mcdiala12.it.luc.edu>
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- In article <4h2qo2$39p2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
- dwnoon@ibm.net wrote:
-
- >>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. ... :-)
-
- ... and as they're intrinsic to the language, inline optimizations can be
- done so the call can even be eliminated ...
-
- ---
- The above are my own opinions, and not those of my employer.
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