Typesafety versus Worse is Better - was Re: Fwd: is there any word processing software for the pdp11?

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Wed Dec 3 21:25:50 CST 2014


On 03/12/14 6:38 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Clearly you're on a religious crusade here.. I just don't buy the line that
>> were it not for everyone using this pesky C language, we could live in this
>> mythical world where exploits don't exist...
>
>
> That's not the line that was given.  No one here is claiming there is a
> language that prevents all exploits.
>

Correct. It was a ridiculous strawman, easy to spot.

--Toby


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