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> Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is impossible to secure. You know that most today OS are written in C or C++ ?
by Devid2014 9y ago
> Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is impossible to secure.
You know that most today OS are written in C or C++ ?
Also many higher level languages are it self written in C or C++?
Write secure applications is hard and need a lot of discipline and knowledge that most developers simple do not have.
Better tools can and need to help here as well as better languages. But it is still possible to write pretty secure and efficient software in modern C++. Yes it is not easy but possible.
- armitron 9y agoThen prove it, list substantial codebases written in C++ that you deem secure. You'll find that it's not easy to do.
- fdchn2016 9y agoIn another comment on this page, there is a developer who claims a web server was made more secure by writing it in Perl (which is written in C/C++). The original webserver was written in C.