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The only thing I disliked was the `begin ... end` and the `begin ... end;` (notice the semicolon) structure on if-then-else

C (and many others) has simplified employing brackets.

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So you never tried to write a function that accepts strings with different length?

This was 'solved' with pointers, didn't? (symbol ^) Well, we're talking about at least 25 years ago, so I clearly not remember this hiccup whatsoever

Turbo Pascal didnt have that hiccup, only the original language.

You can work around this - Turbo Pascal's strings are essentially syntax sugar for

    type string = record Length: Byte; Chars: array [1..255] of Char end;

You can use this to make your own string handling procedures, the hardest part would be passing arbitrary string literals but that could probably worked around too with conversion functions.

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