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Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark?
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:50:43 +0100
Crispin Cowan wrote: Dynamic type checking (or any kind of run-time fail-stop checking) enhances security (attacks are halted) but degrades reliability (processes that might live with a harmlessly inconsistent state may be halted). Degrades reliability of a "correct" program? Or only degrades reliability of a program with bugs, harmless or not? If it's the latter, I would assume QA would want to see the latter, so the bug could be squashed. I'm assuming, of course, that one wants to also squash "harmless" bugs. BB
Current thread:
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Gary McGraw (Apr 22)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Jim & Mary Ronback (Apr 23)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Crispin Cowan (Apr 26)
- RE: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Michael Canty (Apr 26)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Blue Boar (Apr 26)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Crispin Cowan (Apr 26)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Crispin Cowan (Apr 26)
- Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming language compared to Spark? Jim & Mary Ronback (Apr 23)