Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl

[Enzo Michelangeli]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
To: <demonfighter at gmail.com>
Cc: <cryptography at metzdowd.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl

[...]
> What the world really needs is something between C++ and C -- a
> language with very clean obvious semantics (like C) which does run
> time bounds checking and strong typing, though it also needs explicit
> escapes in the type system so you can write things like device drivers
> in it. It probably also should not require run time garbage
> collection, if only so kernel code can be written in it.

D aims for that status:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/sdwest/

On the paper, it looks excellent, and efficient too:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=dlang&lang2=dlang&sort=fullcpu

Garbage collection can be avoided, when desired:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/memory.html

A frontend for gcc is available (even ported to Cygwin).

Enzo


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