Re: Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3

Frank Peters <[email protected]> skribis:
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3
> From: Frank Peters <[email protected]>
> Reply-to: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:21:05 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 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
> 
> 

I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 with TBUG. Not even an assembler.