On 1/8/06, Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml / magical-cat.org> wrote:

> If one were inclined to actually argue a point, one might mention  some
> of C++'s vulnerabilities: buffer overflows, pointers, memory handling
> and so on.

This is a good point.  In languages like C++, your security can really
go to hell through improper memory management.  This is much less
likely to happen in Ruby.