Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> skribis: > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3 > From: Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> > Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:21:05 -0400 > To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:38:52 -0500 > Barry Schwartz <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote: > > > ... programs > > having been written in the wrong languages to start with. (I mean, > > where buffer overruns come from isn’t hard to figure out. They come > > from using C and C++ to write the code.) > > > > Wrong language? I won't even touch this. If I did, it would likely > escalate to a savage exchange on the philosophy of programming. > > Since I "cut my teeth" on assembly language, I have an undying fondness > for C. Yet the universal trend is to leave the actual machine behind > and embrace the lofty abstractions of object oriented languages. > Indeed, a good deal of computing power today is used to support the massive > layers of abstraction that obliterate a sense of hardware and make life > easy for the programmer. > > But I've said enough already. > > Frank Peters > >
I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 with TBUG. Not even an assembler.
