Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:30:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lee Crites (ASC)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Translation to a safer language... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723232315.9874B-100000@adam.adonai.net> In-Reply-To: <199807220125.TAA21968@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
=>Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, and Ada are the most obvious
Pascal is a good language. I still have more pascal code on my
system than any other single language. I'm not thinking it would
be a good candidate, though. Not because I don't think the
language can handle it, but because I don't think there are
enough really good pascal programmers. Most people have taken a
pascal programming class sometime and would think they could
"handle" it, only to find out we turned out as bad a system as we
were trying to replace...
Modula-X isn't that much different than pascal. The main
difference (in my mind, anyway) is that most of the programmers
would sense the need to learn a new language. This way we would
at least start with people who were "fully trained" in the
language.
I've seen a few non-dod programs in ada, but not enough to really
make an analysis of the abilities of the language.
=>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?
A new language doesn't seem like it would be a good idea to me.
We'd have to work on debugging a new language and a new compiler
and new libraries at the same time we are working on the
operating system. It could happen, but I think we'd be better
off with an existing language.
I'd like to see some object oriented direction -- perhaps object
pascal or mod-3.
But all of this is the mindless ramblings of someone way out of
the loop, so take it for what it is (is not) worth...
Lee
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