Javascript is weakly
typed but you don't have buffer overflow problems there.
That's something I've never understood even though the all powerful
wikipedia says JS is weakly typed. Can someone give me an example to
illustrate the weak typing?
I would assume that people are arguing for strong typing for
efficiency. A language with run time dynamic dispatch, like say
Python, will always be slower than something which is statically
typed.
Again why would strong typing get you efficiency?
I think Anand meant statically typed (he used strongly typed first and
then used statically typed while clearly referring to the same thing).
Static typing certainly allows for a great deal of compile time
optimization, neh?
Best,
Sidu.
Harish Mallipeddi wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Roshan Mathews <rmath...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
The point is that so called compiled languages provide more security
loop-holes than interpreted ones. C++/C for example provide liberal
scope for buffer overflow exploits due to use of pointers and manual
memory management.
Accessing any buffer outside the scope of your data structures is always
a potential window for the malicious hacker for buffer overflow
exploits.
And C/C++ are notorious for making this easy providing you with
different ways of shooting yourself in the foot...
That would be because C/C++ are weakly typed, not because they are
compiled. Java is compiled right, does it have buffer overruns?
Going by the popular definition of weak/strong typing, what has weak typing
in C/C++ anything to do with buffer overflow errors? Javascript is weakly
typed but you don't have buffer overflow problems there.
I would assume that people are arguing for strong typing for
efficiency. A language with run time dynamic dispatch, like say
Python, will always be slower than something which is statically
typed.
Again why would strong typing get you efficiency?
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