On 2017-08-16 23:46, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
I started using strings as communication buffers since delphi 2. There weren't even dynamic arrays then...
Well, Link-Lists existed from the beginning of time. I used them plenty in my TP days, and adding, inserting, indexing etc was pretty easy. Maybe programmers have just become spoilt over time with all the "out of the box" functionality and actually become lazy in coding.
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