[TUHS] Is C obsolete? (was Re: [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view)

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 8:49 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 10:36:46PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > > We both love C, we are both disciplined enough to write
> > > maintainable/extendable code in C, it works for us.  We really clicked
> > > over our love of C.
> >
> > Are you really sure that all the C code the two of you have written in
> your
> > careers carefully avoids all 191 kinds of undefined behavior in C99 (the
> > number has grown since then)?  Give me leave to doubt it.
>
> I'm sure there are all sorts of problems with C.  Somehow we both never
> encountered them.
>

Actually, haven't there been many security holes discovered in sendmail?
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