[pjmorris]

I know the piece well. Back when, my university used "Oh, Pascal!" to teach introductory programming to programmers. For worse reasons than Kernighan, I never liked that the length of an array was part of the type in Pascal, but, in retrospect, that might've saved a couple Trillion in buffer overflow problems.

[AnimalMuppet]

At the price of being fundamentally unable to deal with variable-length arrays? That seems like taking away a rather fundamental ability.