Time to make C the COBOL of this century (The Register - Opinion)

2 years ago by cmeerw to c/c_lang

Opinion: Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees

There's no perhaps about the FBI and CISA getting snippy at buffer overflows. These people worry about exploits that threaten car-crash incidents in enterprise IT, and they've seen enough to get angry. It's not that making mistakes is a crime when writing code. No human endeavor worth doing is without error. It's more that this class of bug is avoidable, and has been for decades, yet it pours out of big tech like woodworm from a church pew. Enough already, they say. They are right.

RobotToaster 10 points 2 years ago

You want to make C the language that runs the entire financial system?

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