Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 01/27/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:59:27 -0800

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:15:11 +0000 (UTC), David Wagner
<daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I really don't understand your point. Is this some kind of nihilism
> that denies the possibility that we might find safer ways to program,
> or the possibility that some programmers might learn something new?
> I take a more optimistic view.
There are. avoid C use another language.

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