> sds strings contain their lengths, so operating on them you don't have to rely on null termination, which (to my knowledge as a lower-midlevel C programmer) is the most prevalent reason why people take issue with C strings.

Wait, haven't I seen that idea somewhere else...?

> If you mean that they're not really "strings" but byte arrays I would say that I agree, but to all intents and purposes that's what the C ecosystem considers as strings.

Aha, strings as byte arrays but with a built-in length marker.

But yeah, Pascal is sooo outmoded and inferior to C...

Sigh.