Subj : Re: Progamming language for hackers?
To   : alt.hackers.malicious,comp.programming
From : makc.the.great
Date : Sun Oct 09 2005 12:50 pm

Juuso Hukkanen wrote:
> 1) why user must write those includes. We were easily able to make all
> the required includes to become automatically included, why can't C
> standard committee allow/do the same.
>      ---->some could call that ignorance
others call it an effort to minimize building time. do you know where
"nightly build" is coming from? because even if you include only
necessary stuff, some software takes all night to build. even if it
takes 2 minutes instead of 5, if I re-compile my stuff 100 times a day,
it would save me 300 minutes of pointless screen-staring.

> 2) C contains dangerous traps just for hurting the beginners...
>     ----> C Having those frequently failing 'strings' and not
> introducing safer alternatives could be called mean.
for safer alternatives, look at C# :)

> 3) Many C functions follow no logic, and return values were probably
> designed by rand(); Some C functions return 0,1 or non-zero or NULL as
> an indication of a success or failure or error.
yeah, well, guess what, that's because many people were involved.

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