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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:39:51PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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.

I just typed out a couple of paragraphs to answer that, before I
realised you were being sarcastic! :-)

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