Re:Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]
by atilaneves on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:27AM
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> There are standard C libraries that handle strings very well.
I'm not aware of any. I've never encountered a language that is more frustrating than C to manipulate strings in.
> Are you saying other languages don't have security exploits?
No, I'm saying they have fewer. Far fewer.
> And in 35 years of writing in C, I have only had a very few segfaults while writing new code but never in production
Good for you. In 25 years of writing C and working with dozens of other programmers writing C in that time, I've lost count of how many segfaults and memory corruption errors I've had to debug.
I don't miss those days and never want to go back.
> unless your knowledge is only from reading reddit headlines.
I'm not aware of any. I've never encountered a language that is more frustrating than C to manipulate strings in.
> Are you saying other languages don't have security exploits?
No, I'm saying they have fewer. Far fewer.
> And in 35 years of writing in C, I have only had a very few segfaults while writing new code but never in production
Good for you. In 25 years of writing C and working with dozens of other programmers writing C in that time, I've lost count of how many segfaults and memory corruption errors I've had to debug.
I don't miss those days and never want to go back.
> unless your knowledge is only from reading reddit headlines.
It is not. See above.