> C strings, no matter how much people have complained about along decades (often quoting Pascal as a good counter-example!), were simple and versatile and thus

> C strings, no matter how much people have complained about along decades (often quoting Pascal as a good counter-example!), were simple and versatile and thus could stand all usages without a change in the base principle (so other string types never took off). Except that there are no string type in C. So talking about C strings is a bit disingenuous. And C has the exact same problems as Ada where people implement their own flavor of string libraries and functions all the time, all incompatible.