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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by amqpp on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:06AM (#23292002)
Not only that, C is solely responsible for the October revolution and WWII. C was Pol Pot's favorite language and is reportedly used by the Taliban.
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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by fetbaffe on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:53AM (#23292364)
Big if true :-)

But here is a great article

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by SomeoneFromCA on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:21PM (#23293427)
A very odd article. Everything that said applies to any other compiled programming language, not only C. Even if Pascal or Ada had become more popular than C/C++, it would still have lead to the same architectural decisions we see in x86. In fact the biggest offender - SMT is actually the opposite of instruction-level parallelism the authors are blaming the x86 for.
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