alt Hacker Newsmay I ask specifically what aspects of C lead to examples of quasi low level status such as the one you gave? I'd hazard a guess the C abstract machine is defined in a particular manner differentiable from say the JVM?
may I ask specifically what aspects of C lead to examples of quasi low level status such as the one you gave? I'd hazard a guess the C abstract machine is defined in a particular manner differentiable from say the JVM?
It has pointers and pointer arithmetic. Pointing into the stack, allocating buffers on the stack (and the resulting decades of stack smashing attacks that came with it). Most languages don't have an underlying model of a flat memory that you can just randomly point at and write things; they have objects and data types and functions that aren't meant to be pointed at (and usually cannot).