> Complete hyperbole. Nothing stops you from using a safe string library in C. Nothing technically stops you, it's just really hard. When even djb has suffered

> Complete hyperbole. Nothing stops you from using a safe string library in C. Nothing technically stops you, it's just really hard. When even djb has suffered a string-processing-related bug¹ you can't reasonably expect to get string processing right all the time. Everyone thinks they can safely handle strings in C. It's like programmer chunibyo² or something. -- ¹ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864 ² “8th-grader syndrome”; the sort of overly high opinions middle schoolers have of themselves