On 11/9/2010 7:13 PM, Seebs wrote:
On 2010-11-09, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu>  wrote:
I've been wondering why C programmers keep writing code susceptible to
buffer overruns ;=).

Because we're dumb!

(Actually, in my defense, my code almost never, if ever, has buffer
overruns.  I do in some rare cases have truncation issues with sufficiently
ridiculous input data.)

I was referring to Schildt using gets() all the time and thereby teaching new C generations to do he same.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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