alt Hacker NewsNull terminated strings have some merits but they should be a completely different data type like in Freebasic.
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tdeck • today at 7:02 AM
Hearing someone mention FreeBASIC really brings me back. It was the first language I ever used pointers in.
Are there other merits than availability of literals in C?
It seems like one of the worst data structures ever - lookup complexity of a linked list with a expansion complexity of an array list with security problems added as a bonus.