While this study is the first to identify nitric oxide's role in the thalamus, elsewhere in the body it was already known to have an important, if somewhat different function. The molecule is actually integral to controlling blood flow and is, in fact, the molecule Viagra targets in order to increase blood flow to the penis.
This makes it too easy for women to make a variation of a joke about blood flow that can be in only one place at a time...
You say "C/C++", as if they're about the same when it comes to safe coding. However, C++ is very safe to code in, if you leave the C-stuff behind and use its modern OO stuff, e.g. std::string functionality instead of functions like strcpy. The STL has a lot of functionality that is about as safe as managed code, if used well. Actually, many modern C++ books only teach ways to use C++ that makes it safe.
There are still some differences with managed code, e.g. using an index that is too large on a vector will not throw an exception in C++. But that is because C++ prefers speed over safety. I think some STL-libraries actually check for this in debug mode.
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While this study is the first to identify nitric oxide's role in the thalamus, elsewhere in the body it was already known to have an important, if somewhat different function. The molecule is actually integral to controlling blood flow and is, in fact, the molecule Viagra targets in order to increase blood flow to the penis.
This makes it too easy for women to make a variation of a joke about blood flow that can be in only one place at a time...
You say "C/C++", as if they're about the same when it comes to safe coding. However, C++ is very safe to code in, if you leave the C-stuff behind and use its modern OO stuff, e.g. std::string functionality instead of functions like strcpy. The STL has a lot of functionality that is about as safe as managed code, if used well. Actually, many modern C++ books only teach ways to use C++ that makes it safe. There are still some differences with managed code, e.g. using an index that is too large on a vector will not throw an exception in C++. But that is because C++ prefers speed over safety. I think some STL-libraries actually check for this in debug mode.