← Back to context Comment by ape4 8 hours ago If I remember right, it was memory safe - something C/C++ has yet to achieve. 7 comments ape4 Reply pjmlp 8 hours ago Even PL/I, JOVIAL, and NEWP on the decade predating C had it. cyberax 3 hours ago It was not. It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them.But it _did_ have range checks for array access. cisc 2 hours ago > It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used themWhat's an example of the pain? cyberax 1 hour ago Awkward syntax for pointer access, for one thing. 3 replies →
cyberax 3 hours ago It was not. It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them.But it _did_ have range checks for array access. cisc 2 hours ago > It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used themWhat's an example of the pain? cyberax 1 hour ago Awkward syntax for pointer access, for one thing. 3 replies →
cisc 2 hours ago > It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used themWhat's an example of the pain? cyberax 1 hour ago Awkward syntax for pointer access, for one thing. 3 replies →
Even PL/I, JOVIAL, and NEWP on the decade predating C had it.
It was not. It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them.
But it _did_ have range checks for array access.
> It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them
What's an example of the pain?
Awkward syntax for pointer access, for one thing.
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