And yet, this still ignores the rather amusing fact that the more libraries and VMs and whatnot in between you and the computer hardware, the more chances your

And yet, this still ignores the rather amusing fact that the more libraries and VMs and whatnot in between you and the computer hardware, the more chances your program will suffer a security hole because of a mistake in one of those libraries. Not too long ago someone found a bug in PHP that would cause it to go into an infinite loop if you put in a wrong number. These kinds of things happen, so if your going to write secure code, the only thing that will save you is being really good at writing secure code on whatever platform you are choosing to write code for. The only thing that changes is the types of security holes you have to worry about. Instead of buffer overflows, you have to know that function x does x and in some cases function y is more secure but only if there's a solar eclipse, etc. The higher level language you use, the more complexity the system has, which increases the possible security flaws even as the languages reduces other security flaws. The end result is simply that any given language will move the problem around, not actually solve it.