>> IIRC, in Turbo Pascal, position 0 is the length. (And since it's a
>> single byte, no strings longer than 255 characters...)
> 
> Yep, Turbo Pascal stored the length rather than using the C method of 
> null-terminating the string.

...with the disadvantage of having a maximum string size, and the 
advantage of making certain memory management operations much easier...

Ah, the days of plain ASCII, before anybody spoke of Unicode. Hey, wait 
a sec - C is *still* back in the days of plain ASCII...

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