Re: Education and security -- another perspective (was "ACM Queue - Content")

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

ljknews wrote:

What is wrong with this picture ?

I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not
mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc.

This seems like the teaching of "making do".


There's something better for teaching about stupid programming tricks 
than C?  The way I read it, they were both advocating teching what 
screwing up in C looks like in assembly.  This does not preclude 
teaching good programming in a safer language, and has the advantage 
that those who will be working in C can do better in that, too.  I would 
hope a secure programming course would cover what TO do and what NOT TO do.


                                BB