In
<cae1xxderhizumekfvc2ga1_axtwgpgn_ixbgu765kaawekq...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 05/13/2013
at 02:20 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Anachronistic criticism of past design decisions is not, of course,
>what I had in mind. The inventor of the nul-delimited string cannot
>reasonably be blamed for the misuses of it that hackers now make.
You didn't need hindsight to recognize it as a bad decision. I at
least was appalled when C first came out.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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