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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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You are an idiot (or a troll). 2003-03-27
Anonymous
High-level languages do NOT have to be ultra-slow resource hogs. Check out O'Caml, it produces fast and efficient code. A guy called Doug Bagley did a "Language Shootout" page (too lazy to google for it now) which shows it to be FASTER than C++ and slightly slower than C in lots of common cases.

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