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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:29:52PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> I've never understood people who are religious about that.  It's the
> same amount of effort whether you do it when you first write the if,
> or when you add something to it (ie, minimal).  The only difference I
> see is that if you _don't_ later add something to the if, you've
> wasted that effort.

Why bother protecting against buffer overflows?  It takes longer to
code, and if nobody ever manages to overflow the buffer, you've wasted
that effort.

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