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Re:Taming the UB Monsters in C++ by pjmlp on Monday March 31, 2025 @07:03AM (#43533535)
Don't forget that same applies to C.
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Re:Taming the UB Monsters in C++ by roca on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:16PM (#43541469)
And COBOL.
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Re:Taming the UB Monsters in C++ by pjmlp on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @07:17AM (#43545408)
Yeah, however at least COBOL wasn't designed without bounds checking, or pointer based strings, in 1959 hardware.
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Re:Taming the UB Monsters in C++ by zombot on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:36AM (#43546028)
In 1959 people still made mistakes. By the time C came around, human error was all but eliminated. /s
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