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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by pfundstein on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:29AM (#25924658)
Did you just call C a high level language?
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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by pjmlp on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:15AM (#25925245)
Indeed,

"C Is Not a Low-level Language, Your computer is not a fast PDP-11."

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

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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by pocketgrok on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:57AM (#25925124)
Technically, it is. But usage of the term has shifted a lot over the last 50 years.
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