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Secure, Efficient and Easy C programming

Posted by michael on from the oxymorons dept.

cras writes "Feeling a bit of masochist today.. First in the morning I wrote Secure, Efficient and Easy C Programming Mini-HOWTO. And since I already spent a few hours with it, I figured I might just as well see what Slashdot people would think about it."

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  1. Nice power trip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    how much do these slashvertisements cost?

  2. Nice little remark, there, michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "From the oxymorons dept."

    Why does Secure, Efficient, and Easy have to be oxymoronic? That they can't exist together? Seems this guy has done just those things...

    Seriously, sometimes the snide little remarks from the editors are worse than the trolls and flamebaits.

  3. Hey Eric Krout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FUCK YOU

    My name is Bond, Troll Bond.

    Slashdot [slashdot.org]

  4. Re:a little short?? by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Troll
    It is a mini-howto, and it covers the most important holes.

    does it cover this hole?

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  5. Re:Voluntary slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blockquoth cras:

    20:32:54 up 127 days, 10:58, 56 users, load average: 0.23, 0.41, 0.37

    56 users and a load of 0.23? Go trolling elsewhere, asshole!

    cras

  6. WARNING: GOATSE LINK!!! DO NOT CLICK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You heard me.

  7. K&R designed for paper, not for monitors by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1, Troll

    The point of K&R was to jam programs onto paper books. Using K&R is to a computer what QWERTY is. It's utterly stupid to use K&R for actual programs on a computer -- BSD style is clearly the way to go. :-)

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    May we never see th
  8. Big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This is useless. Show us a way to 1) fix the bazillions of lines of crappy C code out there doing buffer overruns by the thousands as I type this, and 2) force programmers to write good code, and then you'll have something.

    I don't mean to sound pissy about this, but I've been a professional programmer since 1979, and I've seen more sins committed with C than any other programming tool. I've written a few hundred thousand lines of C myself, and avoided the infamous memory and string problems, as have a lot of coders. But as long as people insist on using tools like C that require that level of diligence to create robust code, software will continue to suck.