Hierarchy Home A Random Walk Through Ada Tags blog programming (Show all tags) (Show all pages) Published 2014 April 27 Last updated 2016 January 24 Copyright © 2008-2015 David Given , unless specified otherwise Got any questions? Email me at dg@cowlark.com ! cowlark.com : A Random Walk Through Ada Published: 2014 April 27 So the C programming language has been getting a lot of bad press recently; a really stupid bug in some C code has compromised some of the core security infrastructure on the internet. The fix is easy, but the knock-on effects are going to go on for years and will cost serious amounts of money. As a result, people have been asking: why are we still writing software in a language which makes writing secure, robust code so hard? It's a fair question. We've known ...