NOT Educating FORTRAN programmers to use C

[Karl Heuer]

In article <14186 at lambda.UUCP> jlg at lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>...at least in principle, Fortran should be faster at character manipulation
>than C.  [null-terminated strings are less efficient]

It depends on what operations you're trying to perform.  Some are faster with
counted strings, others with null-terminated strings.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at haddock.isc.com or ima!haddock!karl), The Walking Lint