Angry ComSci Prof. noises (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Please leave recursion to math and keep it out of (in particular C) software: it kills and will kill again.

Kind regards from libexpat, see CVE-2022-25313 and CVE-2024-8176 for proof.

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-7-0-released/

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[-] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did it the other way around in uni, we got a task with no mention of it requiring recursion (even though I suppose it was somewhat well suited to it). I solved it with a double for loop and the teacher refused to accept my submission.

This was a coding class on Unix thinclients, I'll let you guess how long ago.

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3 years

edit: thx sleeplessone@lemmy.ml for making the spoiler work :)

[-] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

The spoiler syntax is a bit different.

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For example:

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3 years

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