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On 2014.04.19, 18:15 , Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 4/19/2014 4:53 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
>
>>
>> In effect they are confirming that C is a terrible language to write
>> anything requiring security and so it needs never ending vigilance.
>>
>
> Sure. When the language is weakly typed, more manual
> effort in terms of more code eye balling, more debugging,
> more testing and more code inspection is needed relative
> to using a strongly typed language. Instead of getting
> help from the language/compiler in finding many errors
> early on, human time and effort is used instead to
> compensate.
>
> This is nothing new ;)

I know - this was all reflection on the Pot (Mr. OpenBSD) calling the=20
kettle (the OpenSSL four) black.

--=20
"Big data can reduce anything to a single number,
  but you shouldn=92t be fooled by the appearance of exactitude."
      -Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, NYT, 2014.04.07