roedy green

they are verbose, and error prone. They are basically assembler level
tools. What you need are string handling OPERATORs to make the code
smoother to read. You also need Strings treated in a more abstract
way than C does.

Even in Java, you really have to stare at String handling code to
figure out what the intent is.

Another way of looking at this, imagine a paragraph of Java string
handling described in English what you were doing. I think we need
something closer to the English.

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