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I’ll never forget this neckbeard older dude in an algorithms course with me in College “C is the only good language. And you should use it for everything.” “E
by leoh 4y ago
I’ll never forget this neckbeard older dude in an algorithms course with me in College
“C is the only good language. And you should use it for everything.”
“Even web servers that power apps?”
“How could you consider anything else?”
During the same program (over ten years ago), someone came from Adobe and basically said “C/C++ are the source of the majority of our security bugs and would just go away with another language.”
Change is hard folks
- ilyt 4y agoI wouldn't believe Adobe, company known for shit security practices for decades now, to be any authority on the subject. They'd cut themselves with safety scissors
- leoh 4y agoThey wouldn’t, but this was a pretty bright staff scientist iirc.
- stubish 4y agoA company isn't an authority on any subject. Employees though... I'd bet the survivors have stories the rest of us just wouldn't believe, straight from the trenches. World class experts on how to not do things.