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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago by MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 88 points 8 months ago (19 children)

I think that’s the point. You can’t trust the average developer to do things safely. And remember, half of all programmers are even worse than average.

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't that be the median programmer instead of average?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The word “average“ can mean many things, for example, mean, median, mode, or even things like “within 1 standard deviation from the mean”.

I was using it strictly as the mean which divides the population exactly in half.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The median is the one that splits a data set in half and picks the middle.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You’re right of course, that was a stupid mistake on my part.

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