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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser
From:       Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel () zugschlus ! de>
Date:       2003-10-05 19:03:33
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:54:50 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
wrote:
>I'd rather that the tools in Debian base were written in a high-level
>language where available. Take away Perl and you've got only shell, C,
>and C++ left; I don't think that's going to improve security in
>practice.

Well-written C++ using well tested class libraries tend to do a pretty
good job, security-wise.

Greetings
Marc

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