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rini17 ◴[] No.43673982[source]
Heh so it seems because the Pascal arrays and strings were so atrocious, Mr.Kernighan avoided them completely in C. Everyone is supposed to roll their own, with quite disastrous consequences.
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1. dtgriscom ◴[] No.43676614[source]
I was using Pascal to program Mac apps in the late '80s. I was forever finding myself wanting a string, but having an array of characters. What a pain.