> "Parse, don't validate" is a lot easier to stick to when you're coding in a language designed with a precept like that in mind vs a language designed to be on

> "Parse, don't validate" is a lot easier to stick to when you're coding in a language designed with a precept like that in mind vs a language designed to be only slightly more abstract than machine code "Parse, don't validate" is easily doable in plain C and almost always has been. See https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html