Gosling Claims Huge Security Hole in .NET

renai42 writes "Java creator James Gosling this week 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.' Gosling 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.'" Note that this isn't a particular vulnerability, just a system of typing that makes it easy to introduce vulnerabilities, which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.

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James Gosling is an expert in this area

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I have to agree fully. The Java language is wonderfully built to avoid the pitfalls in both C and C++ issues. I highly doubt that we will see a virus or serious security issue in applications built with Java anytime soon. The applications built with C and C++ within Microsoft are virtually the same as a virus.

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