On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:38:52 -0500 Barry Schwartz <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote:
> ... programs > having been written in the wrong languages to start with. (I mean, > where buffer overruns come from isn’t hard to figure out. They come > from using C and C++ to write the code.) > Wrong language? I won't even touch this. If I did, it would likely escalate to a savage exchange on the philosophy of programming. Since I "cut my teeth" on assembly language, I have an undying fondness for C. Yet the universal trend is to leave the actual machine behind and embrace the lofty abstractions of object oriented languages. Indeed, a good deal of computing power today is used to support the massive layers of abstraction that obliterate a sense of hardware and make life easy for the programmer. But I've said enough already. Frank Peters
