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While Microsoft was just starting to develop C#, Apple already had buffer overflow detection (of some type) in Objective-C. Objective-C has long had a garbage c

by nirvana 14y ago

While Microsoft was just starting to develop C#, Apple already had buffer overflow detection (of some type) in Objective-C. Objective-C has long had a garbage collected version and memory management even before then was superior to most languages. The idea that C# is superior (and by the way, the OS is not written in C#) to Objective-C for security is asinine.

m0th87 14y ago
Not only that, but Microsoft tried to develop parts of their OS in C# for Longhorn and gave up. Office doesn't use C#/.NET either.
cooldeal 14y ago
Why do your posts almost never contain any references but are almost always chockful of outlandish wild claims? Are they unsupportable?
- taligent 14y ago
  Which part confuses you. He is absolutely right. The way Objective-C has been handling memory management since its inception is far better than most of the other languages around. And the decision to have deliberate mutable/immutable data structures is something ALL languages should have.
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