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Re:The Resurgence of C Programming by Roboprog on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:37AM (#13278253)
The fixed size array limitation of the 1970 CDC Cyber teaching version usually gets an extension in the (Modula or Modula inspired) versions that people actually use. E.g. -

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu69.html

https://www.modula2.org/sb/m2_extensions.htm

Yes, I've read "... Not My Favorite ..." (and "Worse is Better", and "Unix ... C ... Hoax")

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Re:The Resurgence of C Programming by AnimalMuppet on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:09PM (#13278455)
Yes, I know there was an extension. Unfortunately, the one I had to use didn't have it, so I was trapped.
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