9 Oct
2009
9 Oct
'09
11:28 p.m.
James Taylor wrote:
The second thing is that security holes and requirements change over time. Older languages (pascal, fortran) never where really designed to do web scripts and talk to databases. They don't have the kind of functions which are useful (hrm, how DO you escape attempted sql injection in Fortran? ... maybe I'll try something on my new punch card writer!)
Er, COBOL perhaps? One of the first computer languages and designed to do database stuff!
Regards Steve