[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.
> 

You are not part of the problem!  Nor am I.  I have coded programs in C
and dekludged a fair amount of other peoples C.  My C might look a 
little like Fortran but the programs work!

If C were a power saw, we would see a lot more three fingered carpenters!