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| From | Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.unix.programmer, comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: What language is this? |
| Date | 2023-08-21 17:16 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <87v8d8jrpo.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> (permalink) |
| References | <9e7a4bd1-bfbb-4df7-af1a-27ca9625e50bn@googlegroups.com> <87lee55t51.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <ubu4cd$3qqvc$1@news.xmission.com> <g3zEM.718458$AsA.196497@fx18.iad> <ubujqh$3r3b4$1@news.xmission.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes: > In article <g3zEM.718458$AsA.196497@fx18.iad>, > Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote: >>gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes: >>>In article <87lee55t51.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com>, >>>Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote: >>>... >>>>It's not written in a language whose extremely complicate runtime >>>>system that's conjectured to be bug free in this respect by Really >>>>Wishful Thinking[tm] is supposed to prevent simple memory access errors >>>>C supports. >>> >>>What language was this quoted paragraph written in? >>> >>>Preumably one in which word order doesn't matter. >> >>Word order in German and English don't always agree. >> >>Basically he is saying, somewhat mockingly, that because it is >>not written in Rust, sudo written in C is inherently memory unsafe. > > OK, thanks. > > I am glad that you were able to intuit that "Rust" was "the other language" > involved in the comparison. That's pretty obvious from the ,---- | Be careful with that attitude. The "memory-safe" sudo replacement | doesn't support non-UTF-8 input either: | | https://github.com/memorysafety/sudo-rs/issues/213 `---- upthread. Rust is conjectured to be memory safe because people using it really want to believe that the Rust runtime - some orders of magnitude more complicated than a real lot of C programs - has not such bugs.
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