[CS-FSLUG] Gosling: Huge security hole in .Net

[N. Thompson]

A lot of people already said exactly what you just said David, and I 
agree with you too. Another thing people have noted is that Java has the 
same problems because of JNI and really C and C++ are much more powerful 
and important languages than Java, and across most platforms are still 
the only programming languages which are officially supported by a full 
API. Cutting out C and C++ would be a huge mistake for anyone and would 
leave most customers looking for competing products that did support the 
two languages such as Borland's IDEs, plus if software were to be 
developed entirely in programming languages like Java everyone would 
need computers with at least three times the speed of whats available 
today in order to get close to the same performance out of those 
programming languages as C++ got out of computers about two years or so 
ago when people were all still using 800 MHz machines.

David Aikema wrote:

>What is it with people posting stuff simply because it says something
>negative about MS?
>
>IMO, this is more a sales pitch from Sun for Java over C/C++ than anything.
>
>David
>
>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:01:25 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
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>>'James Gosling, CTO of Sun's Developer Products group and the father of the
>>Java programming language, has called Microsoft's decision to support C and
>>C++ in the common language runtime in .Net one of the "biggest and most
>>offensive mistakes that they could have made" in his speech to developers at
>>an event in Sydney earlier this week. He further commented that by including
>>the two languages into Microsoft's software development platform, the company
>>"has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks
>>through."'
>>
>>http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-5563796.html?tag=adnews&tag=nl.e501-1
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