Python secure?

Reid Nichol rnichol_rrc at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 16 01:23:49 EDT 2004


Terry Reedy wrote:
> ... compiled C can be terribly insecure relative to
> Python.  C has dangerous functions like strcpy() which, if used with
> external input, can make a program subject to buffer overrun exploits that
> can do explosive damage.

But this doesn't make C an insecure language.  No language is either 
secure nor insecure.  It's what the programer does with it that matters.



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