So what's nice if you configure your command line environment appropriately is that things that are so-called executable, programs that you wrote like a.out happened to show up as green.
Performance-wise, the winner is a pre-release version of Tower Technology's TowerJ compiler, which generates a native executable from pure Java code that runs almost 25 percent faster than the fastest Java interpreter, even when the interpreter has a just-in-time compiler.
Microsoft added in a follow-up blog post that IE 8 users are protected by default from the attack by Data Execution Prevention, a safeguard designed to prevent content data from being misinterpreted by a program as executable commands.
