Your First THINK C Program

Re:Your First THINK C Program by msla on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:36PM (#22704356)

> Time to move on, C was already outdated in the mid-90,

Objectively false, given the consistent popularity of C.

Plus, of course, the bad things about C are also bad about C++, in that C++ is more similar to C than different from it.

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Re:Your First THINK C Program by pjmlp on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:41PM (#22704407)

Web browsers made JavaScript unavoidable, UNIX clones did the same for C.

C's copy paste compatibility in C++ is the Trojan horse that ended up being its security Achilles heel.

However even with that, the C++ community and ISO C++ actually care to improve the language security story.

The same cannot be told for ISO C.

Actually even Microsoft does more for it with its Checked C research and SAL security annotations.

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Re:Your First THINK C Program by jki275 on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:43PM (#22704429)

I think that used to apply. It's not so much a thing since C++11.

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