"You can program in C in any language": (NOSUBSCRIPTRANGE)(NOSTRINGRANGE)BEGIN; DECLARE X(50); DO I=1 TO 100; X(I) = 0; END; END;
"But it saves 2.7 femtoseconds!" -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 1:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New Java vulnerability On 14/12/21 12:12 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote: > On 14/12/2021 12:30 am, Filip Palian wrote: >> My intention was to share information about the vulnerabilities >> affecting >> Java language. (Without performing a proper comparison) I'd prefer >> not to >> get into discussion about one language being less secure than another. > "Java is insecure" is an implicit comparison with other languages. If > there isn't another language that is more secure, the statement is as > I said, unfair. Not as insecure as C and the notorious buffer overflow exploits due to poor language/library design. Java is noway near as insecure and as you say this issue is due to an vulnerability in a library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN