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Special cases add astonishment.

Blrfl
– Blrfl

2013-04-02 21:13:23 +00:00
Commented Apr 2, 2013 at 21:13
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Strings were a luxury in 1995? Really?? Look at the history of computer languages. The number of languages that had some type of string at the time would far outnumber those that did not. How many languages besides C and it's descendents used null terminated arrays?

WarrenT
– WarrenT

2013-04-03 00:27:57 +00:00
Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 0:27
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@WarrenT: Sure, some (if not most) languages had some type of string, but Unicode-capable, garbage-collected strings were a novelty in 1995, I think. For example, Python introduced Unicode strings with version 2.0, year 2000. Choosing immutability was also a controversial choice at that time.

Joonas Pulakka
– Joonas Pulakka

2013-04-03 06:14:28 +00:00
Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 6:14
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@JoonasPulakka Then maybe you should edit your answer to say that. Because as it stands, the “total luxury” part of your answer is quite wrong.

svick
– svick

2013-04-03 18:45:42 +00:00
Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 18:45
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Interning has a cost: you get a string that will never ever be deallocated. (Well, not unless you use your own interning engine that you can throw away.)

Donal Fellows
– Donal Fellows

2013-04-03 19:10:47 +00:00
Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 19:10

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