Yep, it's right out of Convergent Technologies and Bourroughs playbook. Had 3 feet of CT box sitting on my desk in the mid to late 80's. All modular. Add components by attaching to the right and pulling the lever down to lock it in place. Great way to add memory, disk, and anything else you needed.
Downside - it took up SO much space. Oh, and CTOS did everything back then that modern OS's do today (for the most part).
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
"I hate getting spam/spim as much as the next guy, but at some point, aren't we letting our zealotry against spam erode the First Amendment? I may not like spam, but I realize that the First Amendment was designed to protect speech I don't like."
No.
The first amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the right of free speech. It does not say I am required to listen it or read it.
"C and C++ allow for buffer overflows. They allow for improper or intentional coding to cause software to try to violate memory space of other functions or programs. They allow for memory allocation without necessarily providing any cleanup later. In the hands of bad, sloppy, lazy, or malicious programmers these traits have always proven to be a problem time and again on many different platforms."
C is not for everyone.
For starters, it's a small language by design.
It was used to write OS code from the beginning.
It assumes you know what you are doing and allows you to break the rules to get it done.
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Yep, it's right out of Convergent Technologies and Bourroughs playbook. Had 3 feet of CT box sitting on my desk in the mid to late 80's. All modular. Add components by attaching to the right and pulling the lever down to lock it in place. Great way to add memory, disk, and anything else you needed.
Downside - it took up SO much space. Oh, and CTOS did everything back then that modern OS's do today (for the most part).
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
No.
The first amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the right of free speech. It does not say I am required to listen it or read it.
/* Copyright 1987 Regents of the University of California, Berkley */
or
any number of Linux authors' code too good to pass up.
"C and C++ allow for buffer overflows. They allow for improper or intentional coding to cause software to try to violate memory space of other functions or programs. They allow for memory allocation without necessarily providing any cleanup later. In the hands of bad, sloppy, lazy, or malicious programmers these traits have always proven to be a problem time and again on many different platforms."
C is not for everyone.
For starters, it's a small language by design.
It was used to write OS code from the beginning.
It assumes you know what you are doing and allows you to break the rules to get it done.
If you want safety go back to Pascal...