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Re:Curl is C by pdpi on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:47AM (#13967216)
> None of those are C vulnerabilities, they were mistakes made on the part of the developers, not the language.

Would you ever declare a bug to be the language's fault, other than compiler bugs?

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Re:Curl is C by trav4225 on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:54AM (#13967703)
Personally, I certainly wouldn't.
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Re:Curl is C by irishsultan on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:06AM (#13967783)
A compiler bug isn't the fault of the language though (edit: although on rereading you may not have intended to agree with that part).
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Re:Curl is C by pdpi on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:27AM (#13968492)
Yeah, even I only put that in there as a way to handle cases (like Rust) where there is a single implementation of the language, which makes "implementation bugs" and "language bugs" one and the same.
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Re:Curl is C by trav4225 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:05PM (#13978368)
yeah, agreed.
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