Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Stopping buffer-overflow security exploits using page protection | | From | Florian Weimer <> | | Date | 31 Jul 2000 17:55:32 +0200 |
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Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> writes:
> (C is a stupid language to write large applications in. The vast majority > of bugs in C programs simply don't exist in newer languages. For most of > the things people use computers for today, it's much more important that > something works well than that it work fast.)
*nod*
Languages which have been designed from the beginning to support programming in the large are very rare. Only a single one comes to my mind, put you usually get flames if you admit that you write your programs in it.
I fear we will have to face buffer overflows and funky coding style for another 30 years.
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