Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:45:04 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Lee Crites (ASC)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Translation to a safer language (Was: Projects to improve security) Message-ID: <9807212245.ZM12182@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> "Translation to a safer language (Was: Projects to improve security)" (Jul 21, 7:25pm) References: <199807211859.MAA14931@lariat.lariat.org> <199807220125.TAA21968@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Jul 21, 7:25pm, Brett Glass (possibly) wrote: > Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, and Ada are the most obvious > candidates; of course, a new language could be developed > with this application in mind. (The advantage of developing > something new is that it could have obvious, but safe, > mappings from C constructs, facilitating machine > translation.) Ideas? Might I suggest Perl at this point? A. it's got built-in security stuff such as tainting; B. a Perl-to-C translator/complier is under active development (indeed, as of last count the main problem was getting it to turn out highly optimizable code, not in getting it to turn out correct code); and C. it already has similarities C in quite a few ways, making porting easier. -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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