Re:A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]
by PeCaN on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:02PM
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> Complete hyperbole. Nothing stops you from using a safe string library in C.
Nothing technically stops you, it's just really hard. When even djb has suffered a string-processing-related bug¹ you can't reasonably expect to get string processing right all the time. Everyone thinks they can safely handle strings in C. It's like programmer chunibyo² or something.
Nothing technically stops you, it's just really hard. When even djb has suffered a string-processing-related bug¹ you can't reasonably expect to get string processing right all the time. Everyone thinks they can safely handle strings in C. It's like programmer chunibyo² or something.
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¹ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864
² “8th-grader syndrome”; the sort of overly high opinions middle schoolers have of themselves