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On 12/07/2016 10:44 AM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
> And shoot down the bullshit argument if "any good Programmer wouldn't make
> that mistake" because it can happen to anyone.

Examine the change logs of long-lived, open-source, C++ projects, especially 
those that communicate over the internet, like Firefox, and you'll find lots of 
fixes for buffer overflows and signed integer overflows, same as with C: things 
that are impossible in a well designed language. The proportion of such errors 
doesn't seem to decrease with time, either, so they are continuing to create new 
errors even as they patch the old ones. We have decades of experience with these 
languages that show beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is impossible for 
humans to write code in them without making such errors.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to
eat Robin's minstrels, and there was much rejoicing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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