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Article #331Re: Will Java kill C++?
From: Mike Rubenstein
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:58
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:58
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cgay@suffix.cs.uoregon.edu (Carl L. Gay) wrote: > Joe Kraska (jkraska@bbn.com) wrote: [...] > >My first question was 'show me how to allocate an array of pointers to > >strings'. His response was, 'huh?'. > > His first response should have been: "C doesn't have strings." Why should he have given an incorrect answer like that? From ISO 7.1.1: A string is a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the first null character. A "pointer to" a string is a pointer to its initial (lowest addressed) character. Michael M Rubenstein
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:58:44 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <31779b60.142180194@nntp.ix.netcom.com> References: <31682FFE.2781E494@bbn.com> <DpJyGG.FKK@hkuxb.hku.hk> <CGAY.96Apr18180018@suffix.cs.uoregon.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-dc14-19.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Apr 19 9:01:42 AM CDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182