| MikeB said: C languages IMO aren't the real problem, the most reliable and best performing OSes like BeOS, AmigaOS and QNX (great efficiency and unparrelled reliability) are mainly written in C (and C++) language(s). Performance critical parts, like parts of the kernel should of course be written in assembly for great performance. |
Pointters, pointters, pointters... Garbage collection is much much safer and better to use. However it is much slower in most cases. :/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow
(Yeah, I know theres smartpointers and I use them. However theres still ppl who doesn't.)
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I wasn't keen to switch my windows 98 to XP too. However XP was nothing like vista back then. It had problems but not that big. I think you could compare vista with ME. ME was something you really had to skip.
