XPost: alt.folklore.computers, alt.unix.geeks   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-06 19:57, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-06, Lars Poulsen  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-01-06, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> My C teacher said it was a mistake to use C as an all purpose language,   
   >>> like for userland applications. Using C is the cause of many bugs that a   
   >>> proper language would catch.   
   >>>   
   >>> That was around 1991.   
   >>>   
   >>> He knew. He participated in some study tasked by the Canadian government   
   >>> to study C compilers, but he could not talk about what they wrote.   
   >   
   > What language(s) did he suggest instead?   
      
   I don't remember if he did. Maybe he told samples, but I think he mostly   
   told us of quirks of the language, things that were errors, but that the   
   compiler did not signal, so that we being aware we would write correct C   
   code.   
      
   It is possible that current C compilers signal many more problems that   
   back then, but not runtime errors.   
      
   I would have to seek my hand notes.   
      
   Mostly accessing variables beyond the end of it. Arrays or strings were   
   the most blatant example.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
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