[peterevans]

I mean, I guess it's the best thing if you want to wreak havoc and chaos? Which, perhaps, you do!

Your suggested dichotomy is, of course, a little bit false. But I'm sure you knew that when you wrote it down.

It's entirely possible to write secure programs in C, even with standard functions. Writing your own code does not somehow confer a level of security-consciousness that you lacked when sticking to strings.h. (It does give you a wonderful opportunity to write your own security holes that no one has discovered yet!)

I mentioned this somewhere else, but we're in a pretty good place right now with languages; we finally have really solid alternatives to C that can compile to machine code, in both Go and Rust.

[Gibbon1]

> It's entirely possible to write secure programs in C, even with standard functions.

You realize that most standard string functions are outright banned by organizations that care about security. As in you're not allowed to use them not even if you pinky swear to be 'careful'

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288454.aspx