From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 01:34:39 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> <5ebe316d-cd84-40fb-a983-9f953f205fef@googlegroups.com> <2100734262424129975.133931laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <53a129f1$0$6668$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: +bGw3iKtw0btMD059xlTWg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 2465 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187041 Date: 2014-06-18T01:34:39-05:00 List-Id: On 6/18/2014 12:56 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > On the contrary, a security vulnerability creates an opportunity > to have customers apply any patches to products as long as they are > distributed with a label saying "security and vulnerability fixes". > Oracle have been issuing these for Java for the last, what 5 years? There are pages and pages of these http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html "This page lists announcements of security fixes made in Critical Patch Update Advisories and Security Alerts" Yet, Java remaines the most popular language among programmers, as well as C and C++. But may be Java security problems is with the JVM itself, and not the language itself? But I really do not think most programmers consider safety and robustness and strong typing of a programming language as a first priority when selecting which one to learn or use. --Nasser