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From: Micah Cowan <micah@cowanbox.com>
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Ed Falis <efalis@mediaone.net> writes:

> Micah Cowan wrote:
> 
> > > The point is that if you look at the security bugs in Linux or Microsoft
> > > software they consists mainly of buffer overflow bugs. This comes from
> > > using languages such as C and C++ which allow buffer overflow due to
> > > their design. Other languages eliminate this problem to a large extent.
> > 
> > And implementations for these other languages are typically written in
> > what?  Hm?
> 
> Machine code for Ada. Hm?

Fine.  And machine code doesn't have the potential for buffer overflow
problems, I presume?