[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:33:09 -0700, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:49:24 AM UTC+12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> The COBOL code is more lines. For one reason: everything need to be
>> declared with a type. You may not like that, but I think that the COBOL
>> programmers like that.
> 
> And it’s worse than that. COBOL’s fixed-length strings open up a whole
> new potential avenue of vulnerabilities, in the form of buffer-overflow
> attacks.

Nonsense. You think there aren't run time checks?

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