Re: Programming languages -- the "third rail" of secure coding

[Crispin Cowan <crispin () immunix com>]

I don't understand the purpose of this list. If it is to list all 
programming languages, that is hopeless, as there are thousands of 
programming languages. If it is to list all programming languages with 
security ambitions, then I'm confused, as clearly not all of the 
languages listed were intended to enhance security, and some of them 
(glaringly PHP) substantially *degrade* security vs. many languages that 
came before them.


Crispin

Michael S Hines wrote:


I've been compiling a list of programming languages..   Some of which were
developed to 'solve' the insecure programming problem.  I don't think we've
made it yet.

Perhaps it's a personnel problem, not a technology problem?

My list -- (feel free to add to it).

1.  Assembler
2.  C/C++
3.  Pascal
4.  Basic or Visual Basic
5.  Java / J#
6.  Perl
7.  Ruby
8.  PHP
9.  C#
10. COBOL
11. Perl
12. XSLT
13. Python
14. Forth
15. APL
16. Smalltalk
17. Eiffel
18. PL/1 
19. ADA

20. Hermes
21. Scheme
22. ML
23. Haskell
24. Simula 67
25. Prolog
26. OCCAM
27. Modula 2
28. PL/M or PL/X
29. PL/SQL
30. SQL
31. Jabber
32. Expect
33. Perl/Tk
34. Tcl/Tk
35. XML
36. HTML
37. AppleScript
38. JavaScript
39. VBScript
40. D
41. Algol


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