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

["Michael S Hines" <mshines () purdue edu>]

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


-----------------------------------
Michael S Hines
[EMAIL PROTECTED]