I know some people think that C is the best programming language in history, but this is one reason -- another being the tendency it engenders for pointer problems -- that I could never get into it wholeheartedly.
Jon <snip> in much of the 90s, the biggest (internet) related threats were from buffer overflow exploits ... mostly related to c language programming conventions. lots of posts on this topic http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#overflow implementations done in other languages suffered much fewer (or none) overflow exploits. I know of none in the original mainframe tcp/ip done in pascal/vs </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
