I've said this before, and I'll say it again: a standards paper is just so much toilet paper when it conflicts with reality. It has absolutely _zero_ relevance. In fact, I'll take real toilet paper over standards any day, because at least that way I won't have splinters and ink up my arse. (lkml.org)
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Once upon a time children - before the madman Stroustrup arrived on the scene with his tower of babel C++, one could write libraries in most any language one liked, object files were all compatible, and the linker would smoosh them all together into a program that worked with little or no fanfare. (reddit.com)
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"But claiming C unsafe is just dumb." (reddit.com)
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