Possibly, but that's not my reading -- if you use un-boundschecked arrays, this does not help you crash instead being comprimised
Ken Thompson on languages and safety
(from @peterseibel 's book, Coders at Work)pic.twitter.com/RfSsPCrUFo
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My reading is that he's saying that if you can eliminate memory corruption bugs, you'll still have other bugs
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Hillel Wayne's response to Uncle Bob also seems to work as a response to Ken Thompson https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/uncle-bob/ pic.twitter.com/3oVSMGIiNG
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I often wonder if programmers are unique in the level of stockholm syndrome we display. Are other professions like this?pic.twitter.com/sSK0IQGI2b
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Am I misreading this? Is Thompson saying that a ping of death is no worse than a something that allows you to take control of the machine?
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The next part of the interview asks that exact same question! I have to admit that I don't really understand Thompson's line of reasoningpic.twitter.com/o8tJwqnldx
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Somewhat related(?): Knuth on “goto”, from his “The Errors of TeX” (1989). (See also “Structured Programming with go to Statements” (1974).)pic.twitter.com/0dS6vPL0YV
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That's so interesting. I feel like defense in depth is commonly accepted now. Was this not the case until relatively recently?
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In other words, it's hard to be perfect so we might as well not try to get better
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This line of reasoning seems so obviously wrong I feel I must be missing something
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