I actually spoke to Bill Gates way back around 1988 when he was in Melbourne Australia, and said that I didn't think that C was a safe language, like PL/I, COBOL, even ASM because it is SO easy to overwrite storage that shouldn't be. And that C Strings were extraordinarily slow compared with any mainframe computer languages at the time. I developed routines for my JCL replacement language at www.Oscar-Jol.com -See at www.Oscar-jol.com
You can see Bill Gate's technical manager's response here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JruyoYgXMyFKZnE7UbUIwAELhDZkKW3Z/view I developed and documented some C string routines that I developed to make them MUCH faster and certainly safer. See here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hd4Ld0iJ5r_wQ3jSRv-FTLi7QFl0pstq/view We must develop a safer way to keep all this computer infrastructure going if we are are going to make a better world: www.MakingABeautifulWorld.com Life is to be enjoyed! Clem On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 11:14 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:12:29 -0500, Joe Monk wrote: > > > > .... Cash is ..., universally accepted, > > > It says so, right on the dollar bill. *But* have you > never seen a sign, "Cash not accepted"? I nave. > > In reaction, Colorado passed a law, which should > have been superfluous, requiring acceptance of > cash. Still, some businesses, notably entertainment > venues, skirt the law by providing "reverse ATMs" > on site. > > Have you tried to buy gasoline after hours with cash? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
