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Re:Curl is C by Aaargh20318 on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:06AM (#13968302)
> Sure, rust is "safer" than C, but is it a better language? that's arguable.

Obviously there are more aspects to a language than safety, so I'll give you that, but yes Rust is a better language than C in this aspect.

Don't forget that programming languages are meant for humans, not for computers. One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes.

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Re:Curl is C by macintux on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:17AM (#13968391)
> One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes.

That clearly wasn't the case when C was designed.

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Re:Curl is C by anp on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:43AM (#13968645)
I'd wager that using C prevents large classes of errors that would be common place in assembly.

That said, colloquial history seems to say that there were plenty of languages which did a better job at that than C.

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