From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 12:34:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26873 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thought.calbbs.com (thought.calbbs.com [207.71.213.16] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26859 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@wasteland.calbbs.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.calbbs.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA00324 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:34:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@thought.calbbs.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t In-Reply-To: <199808141756.LAA24900@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:41 AM 8/14/98 +0000, Mike Smith wrote: > > >C is not "unsafe", it is "not-safe", meaning that you're responsible for > >your own security. In this it is no less "safe" than any other > >language as you are a fool if you take the "safety" of any other > >language on trust. > > Gee, by this reasoning a car without seat belts, a horn, or bumpers is > is really no less "safe" than any other car. After all, you're a fool if > you trust your car to be safe. A better analogy of a "safe" language would be a car that doesn't go above 35MPH. Sure, you're a little bit safer, but you're wasting a lot of time. Down with inefficient code. -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu Never believe that you know the whole story. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message