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Re:As a system programming language, C still deserves learni... by roca on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:34AM (#20323755)
"Using a handful of smart classes and sticking to them" by no means guarantees memory safety, unless you also rule out references and a bunch of other normal C++ features.
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Re:As a system programming language, C still deserves learni... by kazinator on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:00AM (#20325935)
I made use of const references in the code to avoid some unnecessary refcount bumping.

I hadn't ruled out calling outside platform API functions, which were all written in C. You can't do that in any language, unless you're writing a pure text filter or calculator for the Unix command line environment (and don't count the I/O and math functions).

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