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> You'd think that decades of security breaches caused by buffer overflows would make people think, "You know, it's 2017. Maybe array dereferencing without boun
by a_t48 9y ago
> You'd think that decades of security breaches caused by buffer overflows would make people think, "You know, it's 2017. Maybe array dereferencing without bounds checks is a bad idea even if it does let my code run a little faster." Alas.
And there are dozens of languages that will let you sacrifice that bit of speed for some safety.
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- lisper 9y agoIf you meant to imply that this is not a problem because there are other languages one can use, I disagree. C holds a unique position in the computing world. There is an enormous corpus of C source code out there, and more is being written all the time notwithstanding that C as currently specified in not a sane language. So what C compilers do matters whether you like it or not.
- umanwizard 9y agoAnd why do you think that is the case?
- lisper 9y agoInertia. It's very hard to replace infrastructure.