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 01:31:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BFA4095.8325D016@earthlink.net> <3BFAD75A.C964DE1C@boeing.com> Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:27:16 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.153.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1006421199 62.252.153.213 (Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:26:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:26:39 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16833 Date: 2001-11-22T09:27:16+00:00 List-Id: "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. Chris