Was there ever anybody a fan of C style strings?
Maybe I misremember, but I think long ago people made arguments that C strings were superior because of how simple they were. Such was the thinking 30 years ago.
Maybe I misremember, but I think long ago people made arguments that C strings were superior because of how simple they were. Such was the thinking 30 years ago.
Older computers had a lot less memory. Programs would write their own virtual memory systems to swap code and data to and from disk. C was born in this era. By the time large flat memory and many registers were available, the old C string was already the standard. It is very difficult to get away from that because everything from the OS on up assume standard C strings.