Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?

[Mathew Lodge <Mathew () CPlane com>]

At 07:32 PM 1/29/2003 +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> s/compiler/programmer/
>
> Now write programs to toss around buf_t* instead of char*.  It's
> not that difficult.

No, it isn't, as is doing buf_t[x] rather than pointer arithmetic, but the 
*practical* problem is that you really need

1,$s/compiler/programmer/

:-)

In other words, there are far fewer compilers, interpreters, Java Virtual 
Machines, libraries etc. in use than there are programmers using them. So 
working the tools angle gives you leverage across far more programmers and 
the programs they create.

Cheers,

Mathew