Holes discovered in SSL certificate validation

Certainly it's possible to write bad code in any language, and that's what usually happens. (Consequence of Sturgeon's Law?) However, that doesn't mean that choosing a language with better semantics (such as strong typing) won't dramatically reduce the occurrence of certain kinds of bugs.

IMHO, C doesn't even qualify as a high-level language. C++ perhaps does, but being nearly a superset of C, has basically all of the problems of C, plus some new ones. Javascript... don't even get me started on that one.

I was an Ada enthusiast many years ago, but haven't kept up with it because there's so little paying Ada work available. If I could find the time, I'd like to learn Scala. However, the work I can find is almost entirely C, C++, and Java.