Darren New wrote:

> Could be worse. Could be Ada, where you have things like "library of 
> arrays holding bytes in memory" and "library of arrays holding bytes 
> from I/O operations" and they aren't the same and there's (AFAIK) no 
> standard conversion functions.
> 
> Great, if your computer isn't using 8-bit bytes for memory. For all the 
> rest of us, rather a PITA.

That's advanced. :-D

OTOH, Haskell has something extremely similar... A library for arrays, 
and a seperate library for C-compatible arrays. The advantage being that 
the C-compatible version has fast I/O (wanna guess why?), but slow 
everything else...

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