ljknews <ljkn...@mac.com> wrote: > At 12:47 PM -0500 5/7/09, Brad Andrews wrote: >> Quoting ljknews <ljkn...@mac.com>: >>> At 5:49 PM -0500 5/6/09, Brad Andrews wrote: >>>> Try a few of the PC-Lint bugs, if you ever wrote C/C++ code. >>>> They can be really hard to figure out, >>> And yet people keep choosing those programming languages. >> They offer quite a bit of power in exchange for the danger. > I would be interested in hearing what they can do that cannot > be done in Ada.
It's rarely (I won't say never!) a question of what *can't* be done in language X or Y. Usually, it's about what's *easier* to do in X or Y. Sometimes the security tradeoff is worth taking the hard way, but sometimes the choice is to the point of being at all practical or not. -Dave, making good progress on the job hunt, thanks in part to people here -- Dave Aronson, software engineer soon to be for hire. Looking for job (or contract) in Washington DC area. See http://www.davearonson.com/ for resume - if that is down see http://mysite.verizon.net/~nosnoraevad/. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________
