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by PaulRobinson 27 days ago
Given that it sits at the heart of the network stack, kernel and device drivers for every major operating system, is in many, many embedded devices in the World around us, and is responsible for making decent chunk of the global economy keep moving, that’s quite a failure case.

Perhaps some professional programmers know how to write secure software in a language with undefined behaviour. Maybe we should think about that more rather than just writing off an obviously huge success as a failure?