[wplug] relevance of C for Apps

[Chris Romano]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:51:07 -0400, John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Sometime in October Chris Romano assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | biggest arguments that I hear for using C is that it's fast.  With
> | machines becoming faster and faster and some of the security concerns
> | around C, is C++ or Java a better choice. Is C that much faster then
> | C++ and Java.
> 
> I'm not a programmer (IANAP), but I read a lot about programming. From what
> i've read C# is supposed to take care a lot of the security programs
> associated with C (like buffer overruns). I've also read that java
> compensates for a lot of C's short comings also.
> 

Well if you use C# you have two choices, use the .NET framework with
MS or Mono.  I don't want to use MS and I am not sure about Mono.  It
could be possible for MS to legally go after Mono using the DMCA, I
believe.  I don' t know if I would trust that yet or not.

Chris