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by pjmlp 3274 days ago
Apparently C developers still don't know what they are doing, after 50 years.

"12. Trust the programmer, as a goal, is outdated in respect to the security and safety programming communities. While it should not be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the C11 version of the C Standard should take into account that programmers need the ability to check their work."

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2021.htm