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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:38:40 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu, leec@adam.adonai.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Translation to a safer language (Was: Projects to improve  security)
Message-ID:  <199807221438.OAA08927@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199807220250.UAA23367@lariat.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jul 21, 98 08:50:18 pm"

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+----[ Brett Glass ]---------------------------------------------
| The question would be whether it would be efficient enough. Perl might
| drop back to near-interpreted speed if certain constructs were used.
| Also, Perl isn't strongly typed, so it might not catch certain errors.
| 

Anything with a cast operator is out then...

That nails, C++, Modula*, Java, C.

Occam2 would be kinda neat, instant support for MP stuff d8).
Now if we can just get a transputer port of FreeBSD...

Bad code, is bad code, it doesn't matter what language you code in.

The only way to prevent bad code is to audit and test.

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