C - Re: scanf (yes/no) - doesn't work + deprecation errors

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Re: scanf (yes/no) - doesn't work + deprecation errors

Keith Thompson

2006-02-25, 6:55 pm

"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@sorry.bitbucket.cmm> writes:
> "Keith Thompson" <kst-u@mib.org> wrote in message
> news:lnhd6oi3np.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org...
[...]
>
> Why stop with gets()? Why don't you just list all features of C you think
> are
>
> 1) unsafe
> 2) useless
> 3) unstructured
> 4) lacking sufficient bits, etc...
>
> Mentally remove the features from C, and ask yourself this: "Have I
> recreated Java? Or worse, Pascal?"

You really haven't been paying attention, have you?

I'm stopping with gets() because gets() is uniquely dangerous.
The reasons have been explained many times.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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