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It's interesting that this somewhat implies the notion of a heap and garbage collection, but that this was not considered for strings.
by masswerk 3y ago
It's interesting that this somewhat implies the notion of a heap and garbage collection, but that this was not considered for strings.
- layer8 3y agoStrings were really more thought of as arrays/buffers at the time. You could create a String class to serve the purpose of a “modern” string, I believe. However, Simula didn’t yet have operator overloading to make it look like a built-in type.