Re: Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:38:52 -0500
Barry Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:

> ... programs
> having been written in the wrong languages to start with. (I mean,
> where buffer overruns come from isn’t hard to figure out. They come
> from using C and C++ to write the code.)
> 

Wrong language?  I won't even touch this.  If I did, it would likely
escalate to a savage exchange on the philosophy of programming.

Since I "cut my teeth" on assembly language, I have an undying fondness
for C.  Yet the universal trend is to leave the actual machine behind
and embrace the lofty abstractions of object oriented languages.
Indeed, a good deal of computing power today is used to support the massive
layers of abstraction that obliterate a sense of hardware and make life
easy for the programmer. 

But I've said enough already.

Frank Peters