| What's unsafe about using one of the C libraries that do bounds checking, etc? The argument about assembly is a red herring. Let's compare: 1) In addition to writing your business functions, learn these additional control structures to obtain safety 2) When writing your business functions, also use these well reviewed functions that enforce type and memory safety when moving code across interfaces. 3) Port all of your code to assembly, write you own memory safety control structures from scratch. You see the difference? The choice in your mind between "add control structures to the language" and "do everything painstakingly by hand" but we are advocating a third option, which is: use well reviewed libraries written with only the basic control structures. The reason I am advocating that is the more control structures you have the harder it is to analyze code. You end up slowly moving your codebase to a point where only people with deep deep knowledge of an advanced programming language can read it. I think culturally, in 2017, programmers underestimamte how much can be done with just functions and literals and well written helpers. The reason for that is we are rewarded (psychologically and professionally) for learning new control structures, but not as often for writing better code using the beginner structures. |