On 11/29/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randall Shimizu wrote: > > I am not all that familiar with Python, but Java's > > biggest advantage is security. There has nerver been a > > Java virus in the wild since it's inception. > > Ditto for a zillion other languages. FORTRAN virus, anyone?
Stop me if I misunderstand... but FORTRAN doesn't run in a virtual machine. Nobody would care if a virus was *written* in FORTRAN. I think Randall meant that there's never been a successful virus that requires the JVM to run. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
