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My favorite illustration of this is Xe’s blog: https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-9632/ https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent

• kstrauser 2y ago
  For sure. That was adapted from https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/ https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation... but still rings true. If only there were someone to avoid these huge arenas of error-prone, demonstrably impossible to write correctly conditions! Rust, Zig, D, OCaml, Erlang, Haskell, programmers look at each other disappointedly
  • pjmlp 2y ago
    It is even worse than that, paraphrasing you, ESPOL, NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, PL.8, Mesa, Modula-2, Ada, Object Pascal, programmers look at each other disappointedly Even taking into consideration the systems programming languages until the 1980's, the list isn't exhaustive.
    • kstrauser 2y ago
      Oh sure! C/C++ are the only current major languages that spring to mind that make it so easy to shoot your foot clean off. Assembler, I guess, except it’s not nearly so widely used and everyone knows what they’re getting into with it.