Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:24:57 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t Message-ID: <199808141024.KAA13339@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:40:00 CST." <199808141645.KAA24210@lariat.lariat.org>
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> At 09:24 AM 8/14/98 +0000, Mike Smith wrote: > > >No, so much stuff is written in C because it's a good tool for the job. > > Don't want to get into language wars here, but in case the current rash > of security problems doesn't make it painfully obvious, C isn't a good > tool for ANYTHING. ... which is why it's been a perfectly good tool for the last couple of decades. Language has nothing to do with security, in case it wasn't already plainly obvious. Security is a design issue. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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