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Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language?
From: James Walden <jwalden () eecs utoledo edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:48:17 +0100
Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote: Has anyone here looked into the security strengths/weaknesses of D? Care to discuss or summarize for the rest of us? Does it inherit the problems of C while trying to improve on C++ et al? I haven't examined D myself, but I would also be interested if anyone could recommend a good paper or site comparing programming language security features, either for just C-family languages like C/C++, C#, Cyclone, and D, or for a broader spectrum of language types. The closest document to this type of comparison that I've read is section 10 of David Wheeler's excellent Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO, but newer languages like Cyclone and D aren't represented in that section. -- James Walden, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of EECS The University of Toledo @ LCCC http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~jwalden/
Current thread:
- Anyone looked at security features of D programming language? Kenneth R. van Wyk (Apr 19)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language? James Walden (Apr 21)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language? Greenarrow 1 (Apr 22)
- Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Jim & Mary Ronback (Apr 22)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? ljknews (Apr 22)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Kenneth R. van Wyk (Apr 22)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? James Walden (Apr 22)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? der Mouse (Apr 23)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language? Greenarrow 1 (Apr 22)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language? Crispin Cowan (Apr 23)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language? James Walden (Apr 21)