Re: Programming Languages, "to C or not to C, that is the Q."

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Because this project used an RDBMS that did not use \0-terminated
> strings, memcpy() had to be used everywhere.  What a royal fscking
> PITA.

Wouldn't proper wrapper (sanity) functions to talk to the RDBMS fix this
instantly, by converting safely to null-terminated fields and back?

> Made me really dislike C, and hate the notion that C is a GP
> language.

It *is* a GP language. It got the job done, even if in a non-optimal way.

GP means you have a lot of chances of it being able to do something, and a
lot of chances of it *not* being the optimal choice for any given
"something".

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