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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Quote: The industry should treat C and C++ languages as "deprecated," says Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
ZDNET article[^]
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"'Tis better to remain silent..." etc.
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I'm a bit surprised at these mild reactions!
Coming from anyone else I would just have frowned upon this, but I tend to believe Mark Russinovich as he really is a C/C++ veteran, or better: a legend.
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RickZeeland wrote: Mark Russinovich as he really is a C/C++ veteran, or better: a legend.
He writes great Sci-Fi books too. 
It's all about about software security.
Languages like Rust and Swift are attempting to address that.
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I am an avid SF reader. What are some of his titles
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Zero Day
Trojan Horse
Rogue Code
They're all on Amazon.
While I have all three books, I've only had the time to read the first one. While it's not the greatest thing ever, it's been generally praised for its technical accuracy - as in, not stretching things because the author actually understands the topic, unlike other authors. Which would be expected from a guy like Mark Russinovich.
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For general business applications this is very definitely a true statement. I can still see real time systems using C/C++ (at least the non-object oriented parts) for performance.
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The object-oriented parts really don't have that much overhead, and I would never give them up for "performance" when their use was appropriate. The main problem that I see with C++ is that C# now provides more infrastructure as the result of C++ standards focusing on pedantic horseshite instead of things that actually add value.
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The Register has a nice quote from Stroustrup in their coverage of it[^]. It's obvious from it that he doesn't know who Russinovich is, though. You're right (below) that Russinovich knows C and C++. Some of his utilities are frighteningly tight code.
Quote: "It is not unusual for people – especially executives – to become enamored with new and shiny things that promise to make their lives easier," he told us.
TTFN - Kent
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Stroustrup is fighting a loosing battle in defending C and C++. The bottom line is that both Microsoft and Google have reported 70% of their vulnerability patches are from memory related errors. C/C++ simply are not memory safe.
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Don't blame the language; blame the developers. I definitely blame the errors I make on myself.
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From a security standpoint, C and C++ have several fundamental flaws:
- Unmanaged heap, leads to several problems such as "use after free", "insufficient memory" when there's plenty of memory, and memory leaks where objects are orphaned in memory
- Null terminated strings, which are the single biggest source of buffer overruns.
- Implementation defined word size and in earlier versions, no specific pointer/address data type, leading to arithmetic errors and buffer overruns.
I've written complex software in both C and C++ so I know you can usually work around these flaws in modern C/C++ compilers, but the reality is you cannot prove most C/C++ programs to be correct from a standpoint of memory management or integer arithmetic.
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Blame the chips and the developers.
With todays CPUs, why are the data stack and call stack commingled?
How long did it take to really start using the protected memory flags for read/write/execute/etc memory blocks
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Allow me to add that it's also time to stop using COBOL. 
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Request Denied,
Only 7 people signed the petition. I think we have found the problem with California... the state government uses COBOL! 
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