From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 10:26:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01868 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles215.castles.com [208.214.165.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01863 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13339; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:24:58 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808141024.KAA13339@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:40:00 CST." <199808141645.KAA24210@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:24:57 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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