Hey, languages used length,blob even when C was invented. HP Access BASIC used that kind.
It was a limitation, because they chose a byte length (to save space). So strings up to 255 characters only. It was decades before folks were comfortable with 32-bit length fields. And that still limited you to 4GB strings. In the bad old days, memory usage was king.
It was a limitation, because they chose a byte length (to save space). So strings up to 255 characters only. It was decades before folks were comfortable with 32-bit length fields. And that still limited you to 4GB strings. In the bad old days, memory usage was king.