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Re:Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite by jeffbee on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:17PM (#33332635)
Don't throw C and C++ in there together. C++ would clearly have prevented this particular CVE, if the author had used idiomatic C++ APIs.
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Re:Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite by pjmlp on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:08PM (#33335487)
Yeah but that is mostly the problem with C++, and I am a big C++ fanboy, too many people write C style code with C++ compilers, to the point that Bjarne keeps doing tireless keynotes about how to write idiomatic C++.

Just the other day I found a relatively recent C++ tutorial on YouTube using Turbo C++ for MS-DOS, imagine how idiomatic it looked like.

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