alt Hacker NewsIf I remember right, it was memory safe - something C/C++ has yet to achieve.
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cyberax • yesterday at 8:42 PM
It was not. It just made any dynamic structures so painful that few programmers used them.
But it _did_ have range checks for array access.
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Even PL/I, JOVIAL, and NEWP on the decade predating C had it.