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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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Subject: Re: *\"LDA\" ok?
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 16:49:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 16:49:54 1987
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>C is the only major language that doesn't know itself what to do with
>strings, but instead forces programmers to kludge around with pointers and
>function calls instead of allowing precisely the construct described above.

What about Pascal?  I mean ISO standard Pascal, not some nonstandard
extension.  Text manipulation in standard pascal is an order of magnitude
more painful than in C.

How about fortran IV?  I know, the 77 standard includes a character type,
but before that, strings were pretty painful.  Not all fortran compilers
are up to the 77 standard, yet.  Even the '77 standard leaves something
to be desired when it comes to text work.