It's Time to Abandon Insecure Languages

[bear]

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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