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Re:C will never stop you from making mistakes by speedgoose on Monday August 10, 2020 @09:20AM (#24108918)
So you have two main solutions for this problem : have all programmers to never ever write faulty code, or design and use programming languages that are safer and less error prone.

One is impossible, while the other is already applied.

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Re:C will never stop you from making mistakes by eerimoq on Monday August 10, 2020 @09:24AM (#24108944)
In my experience most bugs are due to misunderstanding requirements and simply writing faulty logic. Just a few bugs are related to the language itself.
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Re:C will never stop you from making mistakes by hazz99 on Monday August 10, 2020 @09:31AM (#24109008)
In highr-level languages you can make a lot of faulty logic inexpressible in your code, which eliminates a ton of bugs.
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Re:C will never stop you from making mistakes by eerimoq on Monday August 10, 2020 @09:35AM (#24109037)
That's pretty much what I wrote in the first post.
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