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C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time

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"C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at 
run time."
said Csaba Ráduly at Morgan Stanley yesterday in a LinkedIn thread which 
alas mainly advocates C.

In the same thread on the same day, Valériy Kazantsev wrote:
"they fixed a couple of issues in C23 which were 50 years overdue. 
Let's hope that by C37 the language will finally start checking types, for 
god's sake."

In the same thread on the same day, Michael Büsch wrote:
"C is not simple.
C is not honest.

C is Undefined Behavior waiting to stab you into your back in the moment 
when you expect it the least.

It is hard to write correct C programs.
C only seems simple on its surface, until you find out about its inner 
workings."

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C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-11-29 12:46 +0100

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