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I've never met anyone who programmed in C because they were too dumb to learn anything else I have. They were too dumb to understand that they were writing un

I've never met anyone who programmed in C because they were too dumb to learn anything else I have. They were too dumb to understand that they were writing unsafe C code because they weren't skilled enough to write safe C code. So it never occurred to them that they had a problem that would be solved by writing part of their system in Python or Ruby or Java. it's often processed by a succession of "segfault-y" and "arbitrary-code-running" software such w Apache and Linux The vast majority of C programmers are much less skilled than Apache and Linux developers.

zeteo 13y ago
>They were too dumb to understand that they were writing unsafe C code "Too dumb to catch vulnerabilities in their code" is a much wider category than "too dumb to learn anything else [besides C]". You're not really providing an example of the second. >The vast majority of C programmers are much less skilled than Apache and Linux developers So we agree that at least some C developers can write consistently safe code. So a person is not necessarily "not smart" just because of this language choice.