Hm good point. Built-in C string handling is much too painful for me to even consider doing a web application in C, and you have to worry about buffer overflows

Hm good point. Built-in C string handling is much too painful for me to even consider doing a web application in C, and you have to worry about buffer overflows and memory leaks all the time. I'm so happy I don't have to do that in Python. Then again, if you have a sane string handling library in C instead of messing around with strcpy/strcat, malloc/free and fixed-sized buffers, I guess it could be made more convenient. so that the user would find the string creation and destruction just as seamless as in Perl or Python If you manage to do that, please send me the link :)