Re: OT: Re: Secure popen

From: Giorgio (denebat_private)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 12:24:44 PDT

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001, Crispin Cowan wrote:

 
> This is true.  However, we're talking about the merrits of the programming
> languages.  Neither Perl nor C/C++ are very good for security.  Perl is good
> for rapid prototyping, C is good for high performance, and C++ is good for
> bloating your C programs :-)  Java is a much stronger contender for secure
> programs, primarily because it is type safe.  ML and Haskall would be some
> other strong contenders for secure programming languages, but there are many
> practical problems with trying to develop deployable apps in narrowly-supported
> languages.

I think that you forgot Python.

bye,
deneb

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