Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:20:02PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Matthew Danish wrote:
> > If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were
> > made before.
>
> Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti
> code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows, I've written
> accidential rm -rf's in shell. I've written bubble sorts and worse. None
> of these experiences were permenantly damaging and I always learned
> something.
Glad to hear it. But judging from the sheer number of buffer overflow
exploits there are these days, it seems that many programmers do not
learn.
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