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

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"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.



Chris