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From: Paul_Abrahams%Wayne-MTS@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
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Subject: Strings in C
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Date: 24 Jan 90 04:55:38 GMT
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This forum isn't about C, but anyway---
 
The problem with C is not just that it's a high-level machine language--
it's a high-level machine language for the PDP11.  But even given that,
the decision to null-terminate strings was a dreadful mistake (see my
article on the subject in SIGPLAN Notices, Oct 88 I think).
 
Paul Abrahams