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Not that with Pascal you'd never had dangling pointers, double-free errors, uninitialized memory access, or smashed stack.

Security-wise, Pascal offered vastly more sane strings (counter-prefixed, not null-terminated) and built-in support for access index checking and value range checking (at a constant runtime cost).



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