If you program in C, strings are just in your imagination. What you really have is a character pointer, and we all agree that a string is every character from that point up until one of the characters ...
So no-one likes a VPL. Or, at the very least, we will do our best to avoid it. But, when it's the day before laundry day (Sunday, obvs) and all you've got left are your biggest, baggiest pair of ...
Stop. Look around. All things, visible or not, are made of particles so tiny that many find their sizes difficult to comprehend. Far removed from our everyday experiences, they move at rapid speeds ...