Re: The joy of FORTRAN-like languages

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On 2024-09-28, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/28/24 17:20, John Levine wrote:

 
C was in the sweet spot of being not all that great, but better than
any of the plausible alternatives at the time.
 

If you like getting security exploits due to buffer overruns.

Technically there's nothing stopping you from implementing, say,
Pascal-style strings in C. Of course, that doesn't save you from
null-terminated strings being used in other code you depend on.

Niklas
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