From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 21 21:43:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01032 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zeus.theinternet.com.au (akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au [203.34.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01027 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by zeus.theinternet.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08927; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:38:40 GMT (envelope-from akm) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199807221438.OAA08927@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Subject: Re: Translation to a safer language (Was: Projects to improve security) In-Reply-To: <199807220250.UAA23367@lariat.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jul 21, 98 08:50:18 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:38:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu, leec@adam.adonai.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org +----[ 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. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 403 Booval QLD Australia 4304 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message