Re: [SC-L] Programming languages -- the third rail of secure coding

2004-08-01 Thread Glenn and Mary Everhart
Jeremy Epstein wrote: Kevin Wall pointed to http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml as a good source point; several of the languages I programmed in aren't listed (e.g., PL/360, which in many respects was to the IBM 360 as C was to the PDP/11). Throughout the 1970s (and maybe even 1980s) a

RE: [SC-L] Programming languages -- the third rail of secure coding

2004-08-01 Thread ljknews
At 1:03 PM +0930 8/1/04, Nick Lothian wrote: IMHO, though, any such effort is pointless. The reality is that we're going to be stuck with C/C++, Java, C#, FORTRAN, COBOL, and various interpreted/scripting languages for a very long time. What are peoples opinions of the languages listed

RE: [SC-L] Programming languages -- the third rail of secure

2004-08-01 Thread Nick Lothian
IMHO, though, any such effort is pointless. The reality is that we're going to be stuck with C/C++, Java, C#, FORTRAN, COBOL, and various interpreted/scripting languages for a very long time. Rather than argue about what makes something good/better, we'd be better off figuring out how