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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: DISPLAY differs in rxvt and konsole - kdeinit_wrapper fails
From:       Michael Matz <matz () ifh ! de>
Date:       2001-01-23 22:17:42
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Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ingo Krabbe wrote:
> >
> > Hey, I said my C was evil. Which idiot designed a language without
> > decent string manipulation tools built in ? Oh, that's C++ too :(
>
> Hey guy, that C and C++ does not have internal string managment has the very
> good reason, that every internal managment of pointers will slow down the
> produced code, would be hard to implement for compiler creators (which also
> means that every compiler would do it on its own, incompatible way) and last
> but not least you couldn't rely on C code on a nearly mathematical logic
> basis. You can easyli build some functions which manage strings and other
> memory objects. The GNU Libc actually has such an extension. The ISO/ANSI
> standart of C++ also defines a basic_string class which does such memory
> managment with a portable interface.

Rik was joking.


Ciao,
Michael.

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