On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 09:50:31AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 31/01/2022 à 19:16, Steve Litt a écrit : > > > Writing a self-daemonizing daemon in C was a routine when I was > > > still active, though I understand it could be more difficult in shell. > > But more difficult in Python. I try to stay away from C if Python does > > the job. I think Python3 plus its standard libraries are more secure > > than C code written by the error prone Steve Litt. > > Let me generalize: "I think Python3 plus its standard libraries are more > secure than C code written by an error prone human being." (~: > > Actually I don't know Python, but I think I can trust you because I > consider C/C++ amongst the most insecure languages. But this is one of my > favourite themes...
Not surprising. In many ways, C is Algol 68 without type-safety, array bounds checking, or garbage-collection. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
