>> 1. If the entire system was written in some "safe" language, would we 
>> still have 45 buffer overflow flaws per week reported?
> 
> No. Pretty much by definition.  You might still have holes, but they'd 
> be different holes.
> 
>> 2. How much slower would the whole contraption be?
> 
> It would be about 30% faster.

Right. So you're telling me that if you wrote an OS and all the 
associated large-scale applications in a "safe" language, it would be 
more secure, and run faster (and obviously take drastically less time to 
develop).

And people still write all OS and application software in C because...??

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