It's strange that computer programmers think of themselves as being on the cutting edge of technology, but then we use a language that is over 50 years old. Of

It's strange that computer programmers think of themselves as being on the cutting edge of technology, but then we use a language that is over 50 years old. Of course there are going to be lots of problems with C strings since they were designed for a totally different world (no Unicode, no security issues, memory was precious, etc). The hardware is a million times as powerful but the software environment improves at a glacial pace.