C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Jul 27 01:37:42 UTC 2018


On 7/25/2018 3:46 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
> C++ string constants are stupid pointers, no size etc. Indeed one big C++ silly 
> thing that Walter fixed perfectly. He is the only language designed who found 
> and applied the perfect solution for strings, arrays and slices. Big respect to 
> him...

Not everyone agrees with that assessment, but I'm pretty happy that it has 
worked even better than I'd dared to hope.


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