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Comment by asdfasgasdgasdg

16 days ago

That useful software would not have been less useful if the strings in it were represented as size + buf.

Oh really? Have you tried to rewrite anything to put your theory to the test? I don't think it's as straight forward as you think it is...

  • Exactly. The pascal I used had no way to dynamically allocate a string they were all fixed at compile time. That really sucked.