[dalight]

And exactly what does writing a language or winning a Nobel prize have to do with locking down a system from intruders? Except for avoiding C++ that is.. Mmmmm????

Jimmy Carter got a Nobel prize, so did Yassir Arafat. Golly. Lets see.. Fortran as a model for interapplication authentication token passing... nope.. can't see that either.

Of course we could talk about Kerberos...but, naw that isn't a language, actually it isn't all that secure for everything that just has to run around it.. oh.. and besides.. you have to deal with Microsoft attempting to bust it so it only works under Windows if you have a Windows box you want to add to the game.. I don't know.. hard to follow this line of argument

[Bush2000]

And exactly what does writing a language or winning a Nobel prize have to do with locking down a system from intruders? Except for avoiding C++ that is.. Mmmmm????

Simple. We're talking about research here. And, given a choice between research from a university CS professor and Joe-random IT guy, the vast majority of thinking adults are going with the CS professor.

[KwasiOwusu]

"And exactly what does writing a language or winning a Nobel prize have to do with locking down a system from intruders? Except for avoiding C++ that is.. Mmmmm????"

Ummm... ummm that was in response to your crack saying:

"Those who can, do.
Those who cant, teach. "

The point being, since nearly ALL Nobel pPrizes in science have been won by university processeors, for most of the breakthroughs that have powered the scientific progress of mankind, university professors sure DO.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Jimmy Carter got a Nobel prize, so did Yassir Arafat."

They got Nobel Prizes in the sciences huh?
Tell me, which since was that?