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I think the problem with Pascal's strings wasn't that they stored a length. The problem was that every string variable always occupied 256 bytes of RAM and no s

I think the problem with Pascal's strings wasn't that they stored a length. The problem was that every string variable always occupied 256 bytes of RAM and no string could ever be bigger than 255 characters.

sllabres 7y ago
UCSD-, TP/BP-, Freepascal?
- sllabres 7y ago
  I was in the impression that TP strings grew dynamically (memory), but I just checked for TP and this seems to be wrong. Probably too much time has passed since then ;)