Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:23:52 -0500, Jon A. Solworth wrote:

> David Wagner wrote:
>> Fortunately, there are other languages out there that are more accessible
>> to a broader class of programmers, and that don't have so many pitfalls,
>> land mines, and dark corners in the language & libraries. The challenge
>> is to move the field to use those other languages & libraries more,
>> and to use C less, for security-critical programming.
>
> Are you referring to languages which would be suitable for writing OS
> Kernels? And also do you mean languages which have performance
> comparable to C (for some definition of comparable)? If so, could
> you list some languages which fill the bill?

Most of the Wirthian languages would fit that bill: (modern) Pascal,
Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, and also ADA.

(Operating systems have certainly been written in all of those.)

Too bad most of the processors that I need to target have one two or three
choices, none in the list above: asm {, C {, C++}}.

-- 
Andrew