[pjmlp]

The sad part is that this was inflicted by the industry themselves,

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/09/the_multics_o...

> The combination of BASED and REFER leaves the compiler to do the error prone pointer arithmetic while having the same innate efficiency as the clumsy equivalent in C. Add to this that PL/1 (like most contemporary languages) included bounds checking and the result is significantly superior to C.

[still_grokking]

Thanks for the link!

One data point more backing my theory that we're in the middle(?) of "computing dark ages", where the biggest crap and nonsense dominates everything (and people not even know how crappy everything is).

Do you think we will ever leave the dark age?

I mean before our AI overlords get in charge and kill and replace all the nonsense we've built, of course.

[pjmlp]

Not before our lifetimes.

This is a matter of quality, and like everything in computing, quality only matters when money or law is involved, so in a way returning digital goods with refund is one way to make companies take quality more seriously, other are stricter liability laws for when exploits ocurr in the wild.