3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
1:32 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, John Ames wrote:
This is why we've got snow blowers with the label "DO NOT USE ON ROOF" on
them. :)
I look at it this way - use the tool most appropriate for the task and
tell the language snobs to See Figure #1.
g.
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From: Al
Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
People traded safety for speed, and thanks to the net and cowboy
programming, that has turned out to be a bad decision.
Pshaw. C is only as unsafe
as you make it. It's not the language that
has caused, for example, Internet security issues - it's programmers
who refuse to learn well-known lessons like "always, always, *always*
bounds-check network-facing buffers *no matter what*" that give us
things like Heartbleed and any number of other overrun/underrun/etc.
vulnerabilities.
Blaming the language for the badness of bad programmers is like
blaming the chainsaw for the actions of some nitwit who decapitated
himself playing with one.