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