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To you downvoters, consider that the top-voted comment in an earlier submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by Scramblejams 12y ago
To you downvoters, consider that the top-voted comment in an earlier submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037089) agrees with me in principle, if not in form. If nothing else, the endless onslaught of critical security bugs we see throughout the software world suggests that we should be striving mightily to deprecate memory unsafe languages, not writing lovefests about rediscovering the worst of the offenders.
- maaaats 12y agoWhy not post this valid comment instead of the garbage you first wrote, then?
- Scramblejams 12y agoBecause I don't expect to have to hold the hand of every reader of my comments. Before you criticize what I wrote, do a little work to understand it. I suggest you re-read Damien's piece, this time as an example of satire, and see how well it works. I can't do it all for you.
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- kyberias 12y agoWhat a horrible pissing contest that thread contains.
- Scramblejams 12y agoLanguage wars in a nutshell. However, there is a significant contingent of C practitioners who delude themselves into thinking that they are good at writing secure code, when all the world's evidence militates against them. Hopefully one day "C Considered Harmful" is a meme and we only use C, and its memory-unsafe friends, in hopefully increasingly rare places where absolutely nothing else will do. We need to be realistic and admit C/C++ is part of the problem. The sooner everyone accepts that, the better.