alt Hacker NewsIn many ways each individual decision makes some sense; wanting to stop loads of programs being affected by a (remotely triggerable?) crash wanting to avoid time based attacks wanting to be able to set accounts to not have a password
Each one relies on a perfectly valid argument - that * can't match because we all know it'll be rejected by the other thing.
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Retr0id • today at 1:27 PM
> Each one relies on a perfectly valid argument - that * can't match because we all know it'll be rejected by the other thing.
But that's not a perfectly valid argument, and it never was.
zarzavat • today at 1:29 PM
The real problem here is the C language. Our industry should have dumped it a long time ago and we’re now paying the price of prevarication.
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I would be more concerned about the lack of explicit return types, one of the arguments for strongly typed languages is that you should not have ambiguous data and yet…
Granted I mostly work with high level programming languages so I may be missing something.