Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector
by alpaca128 on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:39AM
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> Think. Be careful. Write good test suites. Run them a lot. It really isn't so hard.
This mindset lead to countless security problems and other bugs in all kinds of software. Even now we still find exploits in sudo and openSSL. And the problem wasn't developers leaning back and saying "today I'm going to program carelessly and do a bad job because why the hell not".
Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector
by zabzonk on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:26AM
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Do we have good test suites for those programs? If so, could you direct me to the code for them? And of course these are run-once programs (not that excuses them)- I am talking about 24/7 stuff.
This mindset lead to countless security problems and other bugs in all kinds of software. Even now we still find exploits in sudo and openSSL. And the problem wasn't developers leaning back and saying "today I'm going to program carelessly and do a bad job because why the hell not".