Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Karlsson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN-like languages Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Date: 28 Sep 2024 21:44:37 GMT Organization: Department of Redundancy Department Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 1fE0mJpkb2jG1e5HpPmbmASatjqpXSQQizZJ7GGjxipBd7JGpp Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dd+ANnHxFlZCV0qtB54KIJnQXJI= sha256:qk4a4h6P8izrMhyidN7VIc5w+cskpnaoKm1QV4u3f0I= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:227168 comp.os.linux.misc:58627 ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.folklore.computers.] On 2024-09-28, geodandw wrote: > On 9/28/24 17:20, John Levine wrote: >> >> C was in the sweet spot of being not all that great, but better than >> any of the plausible alternatives at the time. >> > If you like getting security exploits due to buffer overruns. Technically there's nothing stopping you from implementing, say, Pascal-style strings in C. Of course, that doesn't save you from null-terminated strings being used in other code you depend on. Niklas -- >I've always wondered why there's not a Chlamydia Quilt, a Walk for >Gonorrhoea or a Syphilis Ribbon. It's the idea of a Dash for Incontinence that worries me more. -- Robert Uhl and Tanuki in asr -- Cesium is also liquid just slightly above room temperature, but it explodes on contact with moisture, which is inconvenient. -- http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/080/index.html