Re: Bounds Checking

[andrew () squiz co nz (Andrew McNaughton)]

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ari Heitner wrote:

> I'm going to get shot for saying this, but this is clearly a case where
> the flexability of C++ to add extensions to itself (thus "a language for
> writing languages") would come in handy. Writing secure programs? Write
> yourself a secure array class. I know, the unix world depends on C, not

The problem is not lack of available secure programming tools, but rather
the ready availability and widespread use of fundamentally dangerous ones.

Andrew McNaughton