Re: [tlug] The Peon's Guide to Secure System Development

[Botond Botyanszki <9915104t@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

> He makes some great points, but one problem I have with his urging people to
> use "high-level languages" (to me, C[++] is a high-level language, but he
> means Python, Java, et al.) is that a bug in one of those languages might
> allow all systems written in that language to be compromised. Just as bugs in
> [g]libc and GCC scare the shit out of us now, so will Python / Java bugs if
> *everyone* takes this guy's advise.

I think the guy meant that with high-level languages like Java you can't write
buggy code (buffer overflows, etc). So it's not a bug in the language itself,
rather a feature that allows buggy software to be written.


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