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We've spent the last 20 years cleaning up after the shoddy work of people (like you) who think avoiding the deficiencies of a thin wrapper over assembly is just a matter of good habits, rather than actually understanding what the hell they're doing.

And breaking up constants into misordered, mishmashed fragments isn't even a good habit in the first place.

Edit: Come to think of it, given that the original complaint was:

> > printf("Hello, World!\n");

> [...] All this requires is a modification to one string in memory and you have an injection vulnerability.

There's also the fact that it's you who is arguing in bad faith, since a: habit wasn't part of it to begin with, and b: you haven't given any example of a case where a habit of writing `printf("%s\n","<some text>");` rather than `printf("<some text>\n");` is useful for anything whatsoever, security or otherwise.




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