Discussion on avoiding security vulnerabilities in C++

[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.matasano.com/log/914/c-a-cautionary-tale-or-1-hour-of-your-black-hat-trip-is-spoken-for/ 
> 
> 
> Lest anybody here has an insufficient awe and respect for Andrei, just 
> read the above reference. Period.

Once you work through the complexities of the C++, what Andrei is doing 
is rather simple. It's just that C++ obfuscates everything <g>.

It's like I attended a presentation by Scott Meyers which was an 
application of C++ template metaprogramming. Most of the presentation 
was about how to do arrays of types. With D, that's trivial (as tuples), 
and the presentation would have been over in 5 minutes.