PL/I vs C++

PL/I vs C++

While it's pretty easy to code a buffer overflow in C, it is much harder to do it in C++ as long as you don't treat it as just a better C. Use the C++ features now available and it is very easy to avoid the buffer overflow issue completely.

Of course, C++ programs can easily explode in size and template programming has some very esoteric aspects. I would like to see the usual set of servers coded in C++, though. I'd be far more inclined to trust them over the current batch of C servers.

As far as "Small is Beautiful," if my memory serves me correctly, I seem to recall that there is a dicipline of Japanese painting in which the artist expresses the nature of the object in as few brush strokes as possible. Programming tends to be as artistic an exercise as it is a scientific one, and would seem to follow this form of art.