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Too Cool For Secure Code
Jon Lasser, 2003-03-26

Until Unix and Linux programmers get over their macho love for low-level programming languages, the security holes will continue to flow freely.

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That's the wrong attitude. 2003-03-26
Anonymous
Want to know why C/C++ is used? Because there's no good reason that my mail client should take 200 megs of ram and 100% cpu. The "CPU IS CHEAP, MEMORY IS CHEAP, WHY SHOULD I OPTIMIZE?" attitude works if you like shelling out for hardware upgrades every year or so, but of us who use old hardware, it'...

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