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Re:Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminat... by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:29PM (#16160656)
Did they choose "wrong"? No. Did they make a choice and move on? Yes.
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Re:Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminat... by pjmlp on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:49PM (#16160921)
Yes, because there were already safer systems programming languages being used by the time C got invented.

OS safety was already a concern in 1961.

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