How to explain an analog state variable filter ..

[Peter Korsten]

Op 14-10-2011 10:57, Jay Vaughan schreef:

>> * no protection against memory leaks
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> Rubbish.  Whats valgrind if it isn't protection against memory leaks?  :)

Optional.

>> * no protection against buffer overruns
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> Also an old saw.  Sure, we can easily implement buffer overruns in C if we want to, but who does that these days?

Not the people maintaining BIND, that's for sure.

>> * no exception handling
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> Next you'll be complaining about having goto and :labels to deal with.

It's a WTF, but not one that is abused on a large scale.

>> * no type safety
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> This is just plain decadence, really ..

Not really. It's quite convenient for polymorphism, for one thing.

- Peter