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On 2/11/25 7:44 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> John Ames wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 21:54:27 -0500
>> "WokieSux282@ud0s4.net" <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>>
>>> As for "bondage" ... not sure where you heard that. Pascal - esp the
>>> later Borland-derived versions - are a great all-purpose environment
>>> and you can actually READ yer code a year later.
>>
>> Turbo Pascal didn't come 'round until 1983, though - a whopping 13
>> years into the language's history. And some of Wirth's staggering mis-
>> features earned the B&D label all by themselves ("solving" bounds-
>> checking issues by making array size part of the type specification is
>> something only a truly demented brain could ever conceive of.)
> 
> Can you say "std::array<>"?
> 
> I knew you could. :-)


   Nothing wrong, or unique, about fixed-size arrays.
   You don't want them for some stuff, do want them
   for other stuff. CAN elim a lot of range-checking
   code.


>> Of course, there were other extended versions of the language predating
>> TP - but, as Brian Kernighan famously observed, they mostly just made
>> it look more like whatever language the implementors *really* wanted.
>