[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Paul Raulerson]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <mailman.9.1257705243.9279.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,  
> Paul Raulerson <paul at raulersons.com> writes:
>> Mmm- it is not difficult to avoid buffer overruns or memory leaks  
>> or =20
>> any other
>> problems that a lot of people think are endemic to C. You just have  
>> to =20=
>>
>> know
>> what you are doing, and *that* is true no matter what language you  
>> use.
>
>   Been there, argued that.  Why does it keep coming around?  Are the
>   ivory towers still teaching that mantra to the kiddies?
>

Mantra or not, it is unassailable truth. <grin> And no, they are  
teaching them the same old PAP
about how programmers will be extinct in a few years, because programs  
will learn how to
write themselves. (*sigh*)

I get CS grads interviewing who have never written a compiler. :(


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