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I first started writing C code in about 1988. I still find it by far the hardest of the mainstream programming languages to avoid resource leaks, buffer overrun
by cageface 14y ago
I first started writing C code in about 1988. I still find it by far the hardest of the mainstream programming languages to avoid resource leaks, buffer overruns, and gratuitously verbose code.
- Nursie 14y agoPerhaps it is, I don't have a lot to compare it to other than higher level dynamic languages like python. Those I can forgive somehow, probably because I don't usually feel like I'm doing anything serious with them, In the mid level (C++, Java) I find not minutely managing every resource quite alien. I'm currently working in C++ with/for someone deeply in love with STL, boost, RAII and overly gratuitous typecasts and I'll admit I'm finding it a tough transition. I guess I'm deeply in love with the 'everything is just a patch of memory' paradigm I've become used to.