Author: Hendrik Boom Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:26:45AM -0500, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: >
> I agree that use of C has lessened, and that less of us understand C
> today. I disagree that this is necessarily the cause of the problem.
> Personally, I think that anything that *can* be written in Python,
> Perl, Ruby or Lua *should* be written in one of those languages,
> because doing so limits buffer overruns to those remaining in the
> language.
I'd prefer a statically typed language. Otherwise Python and Lua have
about the right language level.