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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. 2003-03-28
Anonymous
> No language will stop an idiot from making mistakes.

The article doesn't claim a language can prevent idiots from making mistakes. But using a higher level language (like Java or Perl) will prevent an idiot from making more buffer overflow bugs. Getting rid of overflow bugs is like getting rid ...

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