On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 06:57:04PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Wow, we've gone from "I don't understand c strings" to "let me explain them 
> using matrices".
> 
> To anyone else mortified by this thread: name any of the obviously 
> preferable languages for this job and I'll try my hand at porting to 
> that language.  I can't guarantee I'll know exactly what I'm doing, 
> but I can guarantee that an entire class of potential bugs will 
> magically disappear in whatever I end up with.

To pick an obscure one:

Modula 3, a strongly statically typed language in which an operating 
system was once written.

(Its a completely different language from Modula 2.)

-- hendrik
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