Re: Boost process and C

websnarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ben Pfaff wrote:

.... snip ...

No. I mean that some string operations can be expressed shorter
and with more clarity in Perl than in C. No new string library
will change this.

That's a pretty wishy washy premise on which to base an implied
disapproval of Bstrlib. Let me just guess that you haven't really
seriously taken a look at it.

The last time I took an (admittedly cursory) look at Bstrlib, I
found it cursed with non-portabilities and unwarrented assumptions,
not to mention an interminable API. This is a criticism very few
can make of the standard C string operations.

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