29 Sep
2024
29 Sep
'24
11:13 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 1:29 PM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gradually the writers of optimizing compilers have
leaned so hard on the
implementation-defined and undefined behaviors that, while far from
useless, C and C++ have become non-portable and dangerously insecure, as
well as often very surprising to the point that the US government arguing
against using them.
>
> Thank goodness. I loved C when I encountered it, because the alternative
was
Z80 assembler. I loved having structs, because I was lousy at using
offsets (off by one so often you'd think I would just have adjusted for
being wrong).
I'll take the guardrails, please.
C: the assault rifle of programming languages...
Rik