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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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Obsolete thinking. 2003-03-28
Anonymous
There are plenty of mail clients written in high-level languages like TCL that don't use 200 megs of RAM and 100% CPU. Interpreted languages have a bad name, but that mostly comes from the days when we were all coding in BASIC on 1 MHz 6502s.

The problem with C is it doesn't give you any protect...

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