Heartbleed and static analysis

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 13.04.2014 00:10, schrieb froglegs:
>   Why do they write such important code in C to begin with? C is garbage
> compared to C++.  With C++ they wouldn't need to drop down to raw
> pointers and would never have these problems.
>
> (of course D guys will say use D, but lets be real, D isn't ready for
> many obvious reasons)

As much as I love to hate C, it won't go away that easily:

- Being married with UNIX and its culture;

- Except for Windows, Android hybrid and RTOS, UNIX is everywhere nowadays

- The macho attitude that pertains C culture that programmers make no errors


This is one of those things that only will go away with a few 
generations, but even the newer generations will need to maintain 
running UNIX systems, thus the circle of doom keeps turning around.

--
Paulo