From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,beb0b7471c6440e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-22 13:41:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BFD7105.10829872@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel References: <3BFA4095.8325D016@earthlink.net> <3BFAD75A.C964DE1C@boeing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:41:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.208.196 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1006465287 209.86.208.196 (Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:41:27 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:41:27 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:37:14 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16885 Date: 2001-11-22T21:41:27+00:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote: > > "Jeffrey Carter" 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