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From: vanavermaet@kerber.dec.com
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested
Date: 16 Mar 90 09:38:46 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <159@uninet.vbo.dec.com> (raw)


with standard_disclaimer; use standard_disclaimer;

In article <1819@awdprime.UUCP>, jaws@chibacity.austin.ibm.com writes...
>This kind flexiability is what makes C so powerfull, and dangerous. 
>You have know what you are doing to do it.

I think this is a very sensible remark.

O.K., the semantics are well-defined (as may people have pointed out),
but it still IS dangerous. That (IMHO) is a very important factor (and to me, a
reason not to use C).

Peter Van Avermaet

             reply	other threads:[~1990-03-16  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1990-03-16  9:38 vanavermaet [this message]
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1990-02-20 22:28 problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Gerald Baumgartner
1990-02-21 16:49 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-22  0:25   ` David Kassover
1990-02-22  3:42     ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-22 16:08       ` David Kassover
1990-02-22 16:21       ` David Kassover
1990-02-23 18:11 ` Thomas Vachuska
1990-02-24  0:13 ` Mark Brader
1990-02-27 19:30 ` Bill Leonard
1990-02-28 18:57   ` Paul Snively
1990-02-28 21:35     ` Jason Coughlin
1990-03-01 19:00       ` Barry Margolin
1990-03-02 13:31         ` Richard A Hammond
1990-03-02 19:26           ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-02 22:19             ` Richard A Hammond
1990-03-06 21:54               ` John Boone
1990-03-03 20:18             ` Charles E Eaker
1990-03-01 15:33     ` Jeff Dalton
1990-03-01 21:42       ` Chuck Lins
1990-03-02 19:19     ` David F. Carlson
1990-03-02 22:15       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-06 10:11         ` jbaker
1990-03-08 15:19           ` Lou Steinberg
1990-03-08 21:44             ` Gianfranco Ciardo
1990-03-09 16:18               ` David Kassover
1990-03-09 16:55               ` Erann Gat
1990-03-10 17:50               ` Andrew P. Mullhaupt
1990-03-12  4:06                 ` Peter da Silva
1990-03-12 16:58                 ` Jeff Clark
1990-03-09 20:13         ` Tony Sanders
1990-03-13 22:11           ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-15 15:31         ` jaws
1990-03-02 23:27       ` Jim Giles
1990-03-03  2:23         ` Vincent Manis
1990-03-02 23:01     ` William J. Bouma
1990-03-14  4:46     ` Lindsay Groves
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