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		qingcharles on Aug 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 Workstation [video] A lot of my early web projects were written in C. Everyone else seemed to be using perl. Doing a lot of string stuff in C was annoying.

rbanffy on Aug 18, 2024 | [–]

In Perl it was less annoying, but I agree - C doesn’t really have strings in any convenient sense.

anthk on Aug 19, 2024 | [–]

No TCL/Tk?

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