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I agree with the gist of your comment but I think it's a bit harsh to say that using C for curl was an error. If I can trust wikipedia the original release of t
by simias 10y ago
I agree with the gist of your comment but I think it's a bit harsh to say that using C for curl was an error. If I can trust wikipedia the original release of the library was in 1997, at the time it was a perfectly reasonable choice IMO.
I doubt the library would have reached its current adoption levels if it had been written in any other language (and I presume an other C library would've taken its place).
- galdosdi 10y agoYou're speaking past each other. You're talking about "blame" in a moralistic sense, but the other posters just mean simple causation -- "would this fault have occurred if a safer language was used?" The former sense would be useful... if you want to sue someone or something I guess? But the latter is more useful in real life, so that's what we're discussing
- renox 10y agoMaybe, maybe not: from Wikipedia the first official validation of GNAT (the Free Ada compiler) was done in 1995. So there were already safer languages available.