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Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by kabdib on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:46AM (#13090107)
I looked at XML-RPC when it came out, and knew instantly that it would be a disaster. Even when you took out the XML-ness, the underlying concepts were complicated, badly explained and open to a ton of wiggle room.

Then you add the inefficiencies of XML encoding, and the utterly crappy nature of most XML translation layers . . . yeah, really easy to see the train wreck coming.

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Re:Let’s Stop Bashing C by plywoodtrees on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:45PM (#13091152)
Sure, XML-RPC not the best protocol. Compared to others it's pretty simple, and the mess and number of edge cases is smaller than SSL or TCP/IP.

If C isn't up to implementing an only slightly complicated network protocol, it's not much of a systems programming language, is it?

It turns out, C is fine for writing such systems and getting them working fairly well, but very poor at making them really reliable and secure, and that's no longer a good tradeoff.

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