Re: Stopping buffer-overflow security exploits using page protection

From: Florian Weimer (Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 10:55:32 EST


Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> writes:

> (C is a stupid language to write large applications in. The vast majority
> of bugs in C programs simply don't exist in newer languages. For most of
> the things people use computers for today, it's much more important that
> something works well than that it work fast.)

*nod*

Languages which have been designed from the beginning to support
programming in the large are very rare. Only a single one comes to my
mind, put you usually get flames if you admit that you write your
programs in it.

I fear we will have to face buffer overflows and funky coding style
for another 30 years.

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