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I'm not sure I quite follow you, because if I believe what I think you believe, then I wouldn't call it "the problem of natural numbers", but I agree that C has
by klingonopera 7y ago
I'm not sure I quite follow you, because if I believe what I think you believe, then I wouldn't call it "the problem of natural numbers", but I agree that C has no fault in it.
Precisely that which makes C so performant is also that which leads it to be "unsafe". It is thus up to the programmer to ensure safety in C, his manual managing of that is the price to pay for the performance gained using the language.
- jonv 7y agoI was simply saying that it's undecideable to do bounds checking at compile time, so it's better to use languages that do bounds checking at run time. But you shouldn't blame C for this.