Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by kps on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:26PM (#23714967)

Standard Pascal couldn't handle variable-length items (e.g. strings without a compile-time maximum length), so only toy programs could be portable.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by pacman128 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:03PM (#23715329)

Even opening a file with a given path wasn't in the Pascal standard. Different implementations did this completely differently.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by masklinn on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:10PM (#23716832)

And didn't standard pascal also store the runtime length inline as a single byte, limiting strings to 255 bytes?

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