[comp.lang.icon] Strings in C

Paul_Abrahams%Wayne-MTS@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU (01/24/90)

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