Subj : Re: US White House urges
To   : calcmandan
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 11 2024 12:47 pm

  Re: Re: US White House urges
  By: calcmandan to Nightfox on Wed Apr 10 2024 11:05 am

 Ni>> https://shorturl.at/KMZ07

 ca> When the white house gives advisories like this, that's when you pause.
 ca> What they should be doing is promoting good practice and education on how
 ca> to avoid such issues. After all, mainstream applications and OS's are
 ca> still written in those languages.

I was thinking that too.  Though I imagine they (hopefully) talked to some software people to get some expert opinions about it.  Also, I've seen other developrs say basically the same thing, that C and C++ are prone to bugs due to human error (buffer overruns, dynamic memory allocation without de-allocation, etc.) that can make the software prone to crashes and possibly exploits from malware - and they say some newer langauges have mechanisms to try to minimize or prevent these kinds of bugs and issues.

Nightfox

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