At 8:33 AM -0400 6/9/07, der Mouse wrote: >> Immunity from buffer overflows has been around for 30 years. The >> fact that some set of developers choose to ignore the languages that >> provide it does not make the next environment that provides it an >> improvement for the industry. > > I'd disagree - if it means a significant increase in people actually > using such environments (languages, whatever), then it's an > improvement for the industry, even if it's no theoretical advance.
A law which outlawed unsafe languages could also be effective, but it would not solve a "tech problem", which is the basis for this thread. At best these are solutions to "social problems" or "education problems". -- Larry Kilgallen _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________
