I was actually carefully avoiding that elephant, not just blithely ignoring it. Believe me, it's been part of the discussion here!
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:04 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > The elephant in the room is being studiously ignored. > > The crucial objection to C's nul-delimited strings of 'conceptually > unlimited' length has so far gone unmentioned here. They have been > the all but exclusive foci of security breaches, thousands of them, of > systems written in C/C++ and their dialects. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
