Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Douglas A. Gwyn (DAGwyn_at_null.net)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:39:32 GMT

Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> > Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> >> That essentially amounts to 'Have the programmer do the program
> >> correctly' in my understanding.
> > Yes, wouldn't that be an improvement.
> But that's a general requirement (a goal of software projects)
> that is 'independent' of languages.

Can you really not have seen that that was my point all along?
Also, for critical code (security critical, safety critical,
functionality critical) the very best programmers should be
used.

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