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Re: It's Time to Abandon Insecure Languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Jul 20 15:24:38 2002
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:41:30 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@acm.jhu.edu>
Cc: Matthew Byng-Maddick <cryptography@lists.colondot.net>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Jack Lloyd wrote:
> A language that seems applicable to this discussion is E
> (http://www.erights.org). I haven't touched it but other people I work with
> have, and we've been considering embedding it into a system being done
> locally.
E is interesting for far more reasons that just buffer overflows - in
particular, it is capabilities from the ground up. Not to mention highly
cool for distributed applications.
Well worth checking out, IMO.
Cheers,
Ben.
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