Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures (Linux Journal)

Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures (Linux Journal)

Not only is current-standard Fortran a nice and structured language to program in (with very mature compilers, structs, dynamic memory allocation, argument checking), it also has a safe implementation of character strings:

But if I remember well, there is no check for array indexing in Fortran: and that's what really bites in C...