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Re: It's Time to Abandon Insecure Languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Thu Jul 18 16:19:57 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:08:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Pete Chown <Pete.Chown@skygate.co.uk>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <1027016329.2744.119.camel@yeltsin.mthink>
On 18 Jul 2002, Pete Chown wrote:
>If you want totally type safe languages that use ahead of time
>compilation, look at Eiffel, Sather, the Bigloo Scheme compiler, and so
>on. Also don't forget gcj, which does ahead of time compilation for
>Java with the same type checking that you get in the "managed
>environment".
Agreed. And I particularly like Scheme. However, it's also not
hard to compile your C code with bounds checking turned on if you're
willing to sacrifice maybe a few things you shouldn't be using anyay,
so it's pretty inexcusable IMO to still be having buffer overflows.
Bear
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