Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Warning - Serious 'sudo' Flaw Compromises Security Date: 14 Oct 2025 06:36:00 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <10cdluk$pc59$2@dont-email.me> <1NucnW53DZrMOHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cihiq$23kb8$6@dont-email.me> <10cios3$25sim$2@dont-email.me> <10cj667$29n96$5@dont-email.me> <10cjf5m$2cnh5$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vLH4kdLEgfg304Hws8VpIgYSukPAZgvEIcEFcHs+BP93oUGqsP Cancel-Lock: sha1:qJkLboSgs4bNBfJoWJpn+d4JykM= sha256:VbTC1p9+LjnvbtADcZRGp+NqWnHv0NA94pM5FNnYh9I= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76099 On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:44:08 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 10/13/25 14:22, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2025-10-13, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> On 13/10/2025 18:41, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> The other way to spot CS weenies is their gratuitous use of >>>> recursion. >>> >>> Possibly. It can be elegant. Or not. >>> I used it in a maze building program very successfully. >> >> That's why I included the word "gratuitous" above. >> >> I once wrote an assembler for the Univac 90/30 (sort of like the IBM >> 360). To test the macro processor I wrote a recursive Towers of Hanoi >> macro. It generated no code, >> just a bunch of MNOTEs telling you where to move the disks. >> The program listing itself was the solution. > > Recursion is FUN - if you have the stack/mem to spare. Once wrote an > n-field sort routine that relied on recursion. Nice, small, > satisfying. > > But yea, it CAN become stupid. Often a straight-on approach is > quicker and simpler. > > CS isn't "practical programming" - not at all. It's the same as any other relationship between science and engineering. You don't want a physicist designing a bridge although the basis of civil engineering is physics. There are universities that offer BS and MSE programs in software engineering. I don't know how much they differ from the computer science programs. The local university offers CS and I'm not overly impressed but technology isn't really their forte.