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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



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