>No doubt. But lets not forget that a lang like C++ needed to evolve while still working, so how much of those security issues are there given the use of ancien

>No doubt. But lets not forget that a lang like C++ needed to evolve while still working, so how much of those security issues are there given the use of ancient code practices of the past? software coded in the 90's even the 80's But C++ was a mess from the very beginning, many of its problems are inherited from C, and the language itself was an ugly extension to C, not a carefully elaborated new language. So most new features were introduced to repair the breaches of such messy design.