Compilers for popular languages, such as C and C++, put hardly any error-checking operations into running code, so as to make things run as fast as possible. As a result, it falls to programmers to explicitly provide error checking. Unfortunately, people often neglect to do this.
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Their programs lead fast and dangerous lives. For example, the notorious "worm" that paralyzed the Internet in 1988 exploited the UNIX TM operating system's failure to check whether the input buffer has overflowed in the finger daemon.
4:08 AM - 17 Jul 2018
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