> Along these lines, if the C programming language had a proper > string data type from day one, buffer overflows would be much > less common today.
Not to get into a religious argument over this, but if programmers did proper data scrubbing and bounds checking regardless of the language, there wouldn't be much of a problem either. Granted, I am not uber programmer (I have hacked together proggies of a couple of thousand lines for my own use and I am sure there were lots of problems in them) but even being self taught, I learned to do data scrubbing and bounds checking just for reliability. I have to think it is taught in programming 101. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
