On 11/18/2014 4:18 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
Never blame the tool for bad management.
To bring up the aviation industry again, they long ago recognized that "blame
the pilot" and "blame the mechanics" is not how safe airplanes are made. They
are made, in part, by fixing the tools so mistakes cannot happen, as even the
best humans keep making mistakes.
C is a mistake-prone tool, and suggesting that programmers get better educated
about how to use it does not work.
As I showed, a great deal of C's propensity for buffer overflows can be
eliminated by a TRIVIAL change to the language, one that is fully backwards
compatible, and takes NOTHING away from C's power. I've brought this up in
conference presentations more than once, and the blank silence I get from C
programmers just baffles me.
Blaming the tools is often appropriate.
