From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-03-31T06:10:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on secure code

il Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:06:52 +0900, "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt"
<jupp@gmx.de> ha scritto::

>The problem are programs that use limits for the size of data but do
>force-limit the data to that size. Many such programs are written in
>C and C++ but that rather means bad programmers. Most problems can be
>avoided by using 'n' functions in place of non-'n' functions:
>

sure but using n function means a loss in performance .

>The problem is that seemingly a large number of programmers do not
>even now that the 'n' functions do exist. But that is not to be
>blamed on the programming language itself.


<snip smart minds/>

sure, there are lots of examples of secure code in C (qmail,postfix),
but anyway is always worth considering the right language for the job.

Having an Airplane control system written in perl won't just make life
more easy :)