Re: College Software Texts Found To Teach Insecure Coding

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

On Jul 22, 9:39 pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> The subject line was the title of an article I got in my SANS
> newsletter today.  I'm not clear on whether this was a contest or who
> ran it, but "Four individuals were recognized today for their
> excellent descriptions of insecure code found in programming texts".
> These texts thus contributed to "weak secure coding skills".  The
> texts mentioned:
>
> - The Complete Reference: C 4th ed. (Osbourne)
> - Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++ (O'Reilly)
> - C Primer Plus, Third Edition (SAMS)
> - C in a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
> - Introduction to Java Programming, 7th Edition (Pearson Prentice
> Hall)
> - Beginning Ruby: from Novice to Professional (Apress)
> - Beginning ASP Databases (Wrox)
>
> So guess which language doesn't appear in the above list?

Intercal? :-)

>
> (Yeah, I know there's more than one language that doesn't appear, but
> you get my point.)
>
>                                   -- Adam