Re: safe strcpy()?

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@wirex.com)
Date: 01/30/03

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From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@wirex.com>
To: mlh@zip.com.au

    mlh@zip.com.au wrote:

    >Indeed. What we want is a language compatible with
    >C but with string handling as a standard part -- luckily
    >there is such a beast -- C++ !
    >
    C++ is unmitigated evil. The safety of C, and the performance of
    Smalltalk :-(

    People who need the safety and OOP abstractions of C++ should use Java
    (or C# if you prefer): they have no business using a dangerous weapon
    like C or C++. Even people skilled at writing C code should use a safer
    language unless they *need* the speed and agility of C.

    People who need greater performance than Java should use C, because C++
    imposes such bloat. The abstraction of object oriented design and object
    oriented programming can be done just fine without C++'s bloat: in Ye
    Olde Dayes, it was called "abstract data structures."
     
    There is no middle ground for C++. Everyone should just stop using it.

    IMNSFHO, of course :-)

    Crispin 

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