[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <gKBLIl0YcnM+ at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <7ire14F32vm9nU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> And once again we blame the language for the incompetence (or just plain
>> laziness) of the programmers.
> 
>    That's like blaiming the carpenter who loses his hand to a circular
>    saw without a blade guard.  The saw should have had the blade guard.

The saw wasn't made without a blade guard (at least none I ever used was).
It is still the fault of the operator for using it improperly.

When C is used properly it works just fine and doesn't have any more
security problems than any other language. I have never written a
program that was exploited thru a buffer overflow.

bill
 

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