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It’s not like C is the only programming language to have never broken backwards compatibility, or that conflating byte arrays and strings is as dangerous as buf
by philwelch 7y ago
It’s not like C is the only programming language to have never broken backwards compatibility, or that conflating byte arrays and strings is as dangerous as buffer overflow.
- kerkeslager 7y agoYou're right, but it's the oldest that you mentioned, which is why it has the most serious signs of age. C originated 50 years ago: give Python 50 years of development without breaking any backwards compatibility and you'd have a programming language with many of the same kinds of problems.