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"The net result is that a PL/I programmer would have to work very hard to program a buffer overflow error, while a C programmer has to work very hard to avoid p
by musicale 2y ago
"The net result is that a PL/I programmer would have to work very hard to program a buffer overflow error, while a C programmer has to work very hard to avoid programming a buffer overflow error."
https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
- pjmlp 2y agoUNIX being free beer is the root cause of what we are still trying to fix.
- musicale 2y agoAre you implying that proprietary UNIX wasn't written in C? Or that (like the internet perhaps) it was basically a research prototype with minimal support for security or reliability that was accidentally (and perhaps inadvisedly) turned into something that people use and depend on?