Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

"chris.danx" wrote:
> 
> "Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
> news:3BFAD75A.C964DE1C@boeing.com...
> > "chris.danx" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmm, I'm getting fed up with posts like this ... "my
> > > language is better than yours"
> >
> > That is not the impression I got from this post. Rather, it was, "How
> > can they claim this is new when Ada has had it since Ada-80?"
> 
> "The idea is to take good security ideas from higher level languages and
> implement them at a lower level"
> 
> That suggests they actually know about other languages, and they are trying
> to bring those ideas to C.  The Cyclone developers don't seem to be claiming
> that their ideas are new, or have never been a good thing; rather they are
> suggesting the opposite, C lacks some constructs which other languages have
> (which are good things) and they're trying to get those ideas across to C
> programmers.

You are referring to the article; I was referring to the post, as I
explicitly stated.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!"
Monty Python & the Holy Grail