Quoth Moshe Zadka on Tue, Jul 25, 2000:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ury Segal wrote:
> > char * sprintf( s, format, va_list);
Oh. Yet another ANSI incompatibility from Sun Microsystems? You
should probably forgive these guys. They were born before ANSI C
and before POSIX. Modern BSD systems return int, as expected.
> > C doesn't even have a standard, on a function many of us
> > used many times ( you know it is a security hazard, yes ?)
>
> Not if you're careful.
> And note, for example, that many portable programs come with their own
> sprintf-like functionality.
snprintf() and asprintf() from modern BSDs are a step in the
right direction. As are strlcpy() and strlcat(), because
strncpy() and strncat() are definitely not something you would
like to use in your programs.
> Yes, C is sorely lacking.
To put it simple, some parts of the C standard suck hard, and I
mean both language per se and the standard C library. But
overall, in my opinion, C is a nice language.
> You won't find a single soul here that will
> tell you it is not. So? Python is not perfect, Scheme is not perfect,
> Smalltalk is not perfect, C++ is downright horrible. Live with it.
But Perl has an elegant syntax!
<g,d&r>
Vadik.
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buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
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