Re: libsafe and Debian installation
> I guess you mean ANSI here.
Yeah, ANSI (followed by IEEE directly.)
> I think the C language is a pretty good thing.
Then you should broaden your horizons; C doesn't stand up to much
comparison, it's just *common*, and people often don't *get* to a
second language. It's like only knowing English...
> The problem is that people try to use it for things it isn't made
> for.
Yes, like things other than "research grade kernel hacking", and
"small research apps" on top of that.
> I don't know Ada, so I can't comment on it.
I recommend you look into it. Even if you don't use it, you can learn
much from the type of accidents "built in" to C that Ada95 avoids
*purely by choice of syntax*, without even getting into sophisticated
features. This is not the place for me to go into further details,
though, this thread has dragged on. But it's certainly the case that
most linux advisories [not all, we are getting to *some* of the subtle
ones] are about bugs that you can't accidently express in any other
language [for the purposes of this issue, C++ isn't a distinct
language :-)]
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