Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)
Lo, on Sunday, December 30, Dimitri Maziuk did write:
> * William T Wilson (fluffy@snurgle.org) spake thusly:
> ...
> > So... why *should* the programmer concern himself with individual
> > bytes of memory? (Assuming he is writing an ordinary application and
> > not a hardware driver or something similar).
>
> Because if he does not, his application will segfault and dump core.
No. This level of concern is necessary only for non-type-safe
languages. It is provably impossible for a program written in a
type-safe language to segfault (assuming that the language's run-time
system is implemented correctly, of course).
Richard
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