[TUHS] Comments on "C"
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Sep 3 07:23:56 AEST 2016
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Programming well requires a lot of thought and care and careful
> rereading, and often throwing half the code out and re-doing it better,
> and until we can have a programming community the majority of whom are
> up to those challenges, we will continue to have crashes and security
> vulnerabilities and other embarrassing bugs aplenty, no matter what
> language is used.
I think I saw that in CACM: "Prepare to throw out half your code, because
you will anyway".
Then there was the time I saw a Uni student, when, ambling down the
corridor at UNSW Comp Sci, he tripped and spilled the entire deck of
cards; after laughing for a while, I helped him to put them through the
reader-sorter (fortunately, they were sequenced, I think).
When I think back on some of the code I wrote, I still shudder... Mind
you, this was back in the days of the IBM-360 and the PDP-11, and I'd only
just graduated, m'lud.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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