In this case, yes they were connected, but I guess that was an isolated case. Banks don't make credit card transaction over the net. Security is not about progr

In this case, yes they were connected, but I guess that was an isolated case. Banks don't make credit card transaction over the net. Security is not about programming languages. Security is mostly about infrastructure, OS and design. I honestly don't care about security at all. Arguing a language is not secure, is like saying you can cut yourself with a knife, and still people are stupid enough to hurt themselves with butter knives. The only language that is truly secure is javascript, and you can't really do everything with it, one time or another, you need to access the hardware and write file. C/C++ is a tradeoff, it's quite easy to teach, so you're very productive with it, that's one of the most important thing about a language, and it's still fast, but you need to use it carefully. Security has always been a costly, luxury feature that is really better to have in some cases, but if you're a small company and need to get something done, C/C++ is just great. And if you get hacked, most of the time, the guys who did it get caught, so I don't see why the industry should shift to ada or VM languages (which have been showed to have still many vulnerabilities).