Zero terminated strings were the basis for an awful lot of useful software. Calling them the biggest mistake in computing is a bit OTT.
I haven’t programmed anything Pascal related for 30+ years but I dimly remember thinking at the time that I wished the string system wasn’t so hard to use.
I haven’t programmed anything Pascal related for 30+ years but I dimly remember thinking at the time that I wished the string system wasn’t so hard to use.