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pjmlp 12 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Contracts for C

Languages are software products like everything else in computing, either they evolve or they whither and die.

C especially was designed with lots of security defects, and had it not been for UNIX being available for free, it would probably never taken off.

HexDecOctBin 12 months ago [–]

More likely they evolve AND they whither and die. The number of software I have stopped using due to bad updates is much higher than those with not enough updates.

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