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ISO C89 is exactly like ISO C23 in that regard.

CVE database proves that those kind of errors keep coming up in 2024, regardless of those changes.

Not only do they keep coming up, the monetary cost of fixing those issues has raised up to a level that now even governments are looking into this.

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You've made three true statements, but I don't agree if you're implying that they prove that "nothing has changed". Bugs still appear, but they are significantly less common (per project or line not per year) and not as damaging when they occur. This is a non-trivial change for the better in the realm of C application quality.

There are more slaves in the world now than ever before in history, but global society has still made great progress on eliminating it in the last thousand years.

>ISO C89

Not that it matters, but isn't that technically ANSI C(89)? If I remember correctly, the first ISO C standard is instead C90, which is basically identical to C89.

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