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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: "Death To C" |
| Date | 2015-05-05 12:49 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <cqqicgF7s5sU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <mi8hvq$p37$1@dont-email.me> <1d3d39e1-3907-4222-9369-154784461fbd@googlegroups.com> |
Malcolm McLean wrote: > On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 8:41:55 PM UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> "Death To C" >> http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/02/and-c-plus-plus-too/ >> >> "Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It's a classic. >> It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its >> sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all the faults I'm about >> to describe.) It is blindingly, quicksilver fast, because it's >> about as close to the bone of the machine as you can get. It is time- >> tested and ubiquitous. And it is terrifyingly dangerous." >> >> So what else is new? >> > The main problem is buffer overruns. More rarely you can also > have dangling or alisased pointers. But no-one has come up with > a nice fix. C++... > It's easy enough to implement safe arrays in another > language, but they you lose the speed of raw writes to memory. You can get close to the best of both worlds in C++ by not exposing the raw pointer. -- Ian Collins
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"Death To C" Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2015-05-04 14:41 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-04 22:16 +0200
Re: "Death To C" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-05-04 13:26 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-04 22:51 +0200
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-04 22:02 +0100
Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-05 00:06 +0200
Re: "Death To C" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-05-04 13:22 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-05-04 22:41 +0200
Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-04 20:25 -0500
Bounds checking in C (Was: "Death To C") gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-05-05 02:15 +0000
Re: Bounds checking in C (Was: "Death To C") BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-06 10:23 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-05-04 21:36 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 01:01 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-05-05 12:23 -0500
Re: "Death To C" CHIN Dihedral <dihedral88888@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 03:06 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 17:43 +1200
Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 01:00 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 01:13 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 19:15 +1200
Re: "Death To C" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-05 02:41 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 20:12 +1200
Re: "Death To C" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-05 06:48 +0000
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-05 10:57 +0100
Re: "Death To C" asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-05 16:53 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-05-06 08:10 +0100
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-06 09:53 +0100
Re: "Death To C" Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-06 13:49 +0100
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-06 14:29 +0100
Re: "Death To C" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-05-06 09:43 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-06 18:24 +0100
Re: "Death To C" asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-08 00:44 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-08 13:49 +0100
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-04 22:15 +0100
Re: "Death To C" BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-08 09:09 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-05-04 16:18 -0500
Re: "Death To C" Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-05 12:49 +1200
Re: "Death To C" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-05-08 21:52 +0000
Re: "Death To C" Merikissa <merikissa@no.spam.net> - 2015-05-10 04:04 +0300
Re: "Death To C" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 08:11 -0700
Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 10:00 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-13 18:20 +0100
Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 10:47 -0700
Re: "Death To C" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-14 11:09 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-15 19:21 +0100
Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-16 09:10 -0700
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-16 20:45 +0100
Re: "Death To C" David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-05-17 09:38 -0700
Re: "Death To C" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-05-17 10:47 +0000
Re: "Death To C" Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-17 12:20 +0100
Re: "Death To C" "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-05-13 10:24 -0700
Re: "Death To C" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-13 22:01 +0200
Re: "Death To C" Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-05-14 07:48 +0100
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