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gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:
> In article AsA.196497@fx18.iad>,
> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:
>>>In article <87lee55t51.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com>,
>>>Rainer Weikusat  <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
>>>...
>>>>It`s  not written  in  a language  whose  extremely complicate  runtime
>>>>system that`s  conjectured to  be bug  free in  this respect  by Really
>>>>Wishful Thinking[tm] is supposed to prevent simple memory access errors
>>>>C supports.
>>>
>>>What language was this quoted paragraph written in?
>>>
>>>Preumably one in which word order doesn`t matter.
>>
>>Word order in German and English don`t always agree.
>>
>>Basically he is saying, somewhat mockingly, that because it is
>>not written in Rust, sudo written in C is inherently memory unsafe.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> I am glad that you were able to intuit that "Rust" was "the other language"
> involved in the comparison.

That`s pretty obvious from the

,----
| Be careful with that attitude. The "memory-safe" sudo replacement
| doesn`t support non-UTF-8 input either:
| 
| https://github.com/memorysafety/sudo-rs/issues/213
`----

upthread. Rust is conjectured to be memory safe because people using it
really want to believe that the Rust runtime - some orders of magnitude
more complicated than a real lot of C programs - has not such bugs.
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