@quarknova thank goodness!
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! -
back in the days of dos i did a little programming with turbo pascal, which was quite a joy to use at the time (it had a lovely tui ide and the compiler was _fast as hell_ compared to their C compiler)back in the days of dos i did a little programming with turbo pascal, which was quite a joy to use at the time (it had a lovely tui ide and the compiler was _fast as hell_ compared to their C compiler)
but Pascal had a weird quirk which was that strings were stored prepended with a length byte...
...which meant no string could exceed 255 characters
if you were doing, say, a text editor this was really annoying
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Unions are like condoms -- if someone tries to tell you you don't need one, you *definitely* need one.Unions are like condoms -- if someone tries to tell you you don't need one, you *definitely* need one.