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Re:As a system programming language, C still deserves learni... by majewsky on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:42AM (#20323802)
> You can change your language, but then you've put the bugs in your compiler / interpreter / vm.

Sure, but the number of bounds-checking bugs in, say, the Rust compiler/stdlib is multiple order of magnitudes lower than if all Rust applications had to roll their own bounds-checking code.

Re:As a system programming language, C still deserves learni... by jonv on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:26AM (#20325021)
Yes, but I am in agreement with you. I was simply saying you shouldn't blame C for being what it is, not that you should use it.