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Re: It's Time to Abandon Insecure Languages

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wagner)
Fri Jul 19 13:24:26 2002

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Date: 18 Jul 2002 22:38:31 GMT
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Jay D. Dyson wrote:
>	Let us not forget Ada.  My wife's been coding in it for years now
>and, while I haven't played with the language apart from poring through
>her code on occasion, the language strikes me as remarkably more secure
>than C/C++.

This seems interesting.  Can you elaborate a little more on Ada's
advantages with regard to security?  Can you give any examples?
(The URLs you mentioned didn't help me much.)

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