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by mikepurvis
697 days ago
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I expect it's basically always been understood that null-terminated strings were unsafe (after all, strncpy has existed since the 70s [1]), more just that the various costs of the alternatives (performance, complexity, later on interop) weren't seen as worth it until more recent times. And it's not like they didn't get tried— Pascal has always had length-prefixed strings as its default, and it's a contemporary of C. [1]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/450802 |
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