Reading this made me remember Zed Shaw&#x27;s rant on C-strings and his recommendation to use a &quot;Safer&quot; string library:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c.learncodethehardway.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;ex36.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c.learncodethehardway.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;ex36.html</a><p>I&#x27;m not an experienced enough programmer to be able to evaluate how much &quot;safer&quot; the bstrlib library actually is. I&#x27;m sure the various HN Engineers can chime in with their insights.