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> memory-safe you are forgetting peek and poke.

• kragen 3y ago
  i don't think the dartmouth system had those, and anyway it's not the same problem as risking a crash every time you index an array
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    The problem is most times C stuff doesn't crash, it corrupts memory and erroneous results. We're lucky if it crashes.
    • kragen 3y ago
      agreed, especially on machines without memory protection hardware. these are not ideal characteristics for a beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code
• pjmlp 3y ago
  Just like unsafe code blocks in modern languages, quite easy to search for. Basic has proper strings, proper arrays, with bounds checking, and automatic memory management.