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Re:Some C habits I employ for the modern day by pjmlp on Saturday January 24, 2026 @05:27AM (#46742409)
Yeah the same reasons as the flamewars on comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.

WG21 could do a better job, but that least they acknowledge security has to be tackled somehow.

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Re:Some C habits I employ for the modern day by lelanthran on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:21AM (#46742669)
>> people choose almost anything over C++. The fact that "anything" also includes "C" is mostly incidental.

> Yeah the same reasons as the flamewars on comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.

I've never seen that reason in comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++; I am skeptical that you have seen that reason.

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Re:Some C habits I employ for the modern day by uecker on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:05PM (#46746492)
Your implied claim that WG14 doesn't is incorrect, as you have been told before.
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Re:Some C habits I employ for the modern day by pjmlp on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:55AM (#46762623)
As you have equally been told before, I have still not been proven wrong by WG14 work output during the last decades since 1989.
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