On: Checked C

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Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t a few BASIC dialects, like QuickBasic and Turbo Basic, also support that back then?

Truly bizarre that we ended up with C, still feature incomplete compared to what was available at the time.

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All major systems programming languages starting with JOVIAL in 1958, had bounds checking.

ESPOL/NEWP from 1961, almost a decade before C came to be, even had unsafe code blocks!

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The history of technology is littered with examples of a technically superior solution being abandoned for a crappier solution.