Safe coding practices (was Re: Bug in users command)

[Steven Ryan]

>>In general, sure, handling arbitrary input is great.  In specific cases
>>where you can make a confident estimate of the maximum input size, I have
>>no problem at all with using checked fixed size arrays of ten times
>>that size.  The benefit is N fewer lines to get wrong, and the cost, if
>>your estimate is good, is non-existant.

Should all this be moved to rec.humor.c? The first thing the fanatics shout out
each time a Fortro-C War breaks out is that the poor Fortran programmers are
forced to use fixed size arrays, whereas C with its linked lists and
dynamically allocatable arrays can handle anything machine memory size permits.

I guess you can program in Fortran in any language.
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