Subj : Re: US White House urges
To   : Nightfox
From : calcmandan
Date : Fri Apr 12 2024 03:47 am

On 11 Apr 2024, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: US White House urges
 Ni>   By: calcmandan to Nightfox on Wed Apr 10 2024 11:05 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Ni>> https://shorturl.at/KMZ07
 Ni> 
 Ni>  ca> When the white house gives advisories like this, that's when you paus
 Ni>  ca> What they should be doing is promoting good practice and education on
 Ni>  ca> to avoid such issues. After all, mainstream applications and OS's are
 Ni>  ca> still written in those languages.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I was thinking that too.  Though I imagine they (hopefully) talked to
 Ni> some software people to get some expert opinions about it.  Also, I've
 Ni> seen other developrs say basically the same thing, that C and C++ are
 Ni> prone to bugs due to human error (buffer overruns, dynamic memory
 Ni> allocation without de-allocation, etc.) that can make the software prone
 Ni> to crashes and possibly exploits from malware - and they say some newer
 Ni> langauges have mechanisms to try to minimize or prevent these kinds of
 Ni> bugs and issues.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox
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It's not a new sentiment. People have been saying this for years. I like to stick with old standards that have stood the test of time. I can't count how many new languages have popped up the last decade... Almost none of them will be remembered. C++ is a very robust language, and the trade-off is complexity. 

calcmandan

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