alt Hacker NewsThe 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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oneeyedpigeon • today at 1:40 PM
Which of the several flaws in this bug chain would have been materially different with a language other than C?
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randomNumber7 • today at 2:56 PM
Do you work in industry or academia?
01HNNWZ0MV43FF • today at 1:38 PM
There is no industry, it's just people
I understand that other languages could help avoiding the semi-predicate problem. That being said, in C there are better ways around semi-predicates, as inelegant as they may be, is possble, is not an inherent problem of the language, but may a bad habit/idiom of it.