Jim & Mary Ronback opined: > I am hard put to find an example of a language feature which makes a > system more secure but less safe or vice versa, in any context. Can > anyone else think of one?
Not 100%, but consider automatic garbage collection. Tends to make a system more secure, because it's associated with languages that avoid pointers with all their evilness. Tends to make a system less safe, because if the garbage collection occurs at the wrong time (e.g., when you're spitting out radiation for a medical instrument), it could cause the system to temporarily freeze. --Jeremy
