Re: Off topic programming thread

[Alexandre Dulaunoy <alexandre.dulaunoy () ael be>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Bill Royds wrote:

> I agree that one can write secure code in C, but I am saying that C doesn't
> help in writing it.
> Perhaps we need to "deprecate" some C standard library functions and syntax

Various attempts  to move to a  specific dialect of C  exists, I don't
really know the efficiency of that. 

http://www.research.att.com/projects/cyclone/

On  the other side,  an interpreter  of C  can also  be used  to check
consistency of the software and reaction inside a 'kind of' vm. 

http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html

It's only a part of the cake. 

Every ingredient  are important  for the taste  of the cake,  taste is
security and cake is software.

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