Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
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Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed May 25 2005 - 03:59:57 CEST



Eric Cordian wrote:


[snip]


> It doesn't do anything Fortran, Pascal, Modula, PL/I, or a host of other 


> languages can't do.  Not to mention all those Algol-like system languages 


> vendors like Burroughs invented to write OS code in.


> 


> C just became popular, and now no one can stop using it.


> 


Fortran 4 and 77 cannot handle interrupts or recursion.  Its I/O and 


character handling were very inefficient.



Andrew Swallow


Received on Thu Sep 29 21:38:28 2005