On 16-Dec-08 21:48, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> 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...??
> 
because the manager is from a completely different field and tried to 
catch up with the state of the art by reading K&R.

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