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Re: Anyone looked at security features of D programming la nguage compared to Spark?
From: Jim & Mary Ronback <Jim_Ronback () dccnet com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:52:48 +0100
Jeremy Epstein wrote: Jim & Mary Ronback opined: I am hard put to find an example of a language feature which makes a system more secure but less safe or vice versa, in any context. Can anyone else think of one? Not 100%, but consider automatic garbage collection. Tends to make a system *more secure*, because it's associated with languages that avoid pointers with all their evilness. Tends to make a system less safe, because if the garbage collection occurs at the wrong time (e.g., when you're spitting out radiation for a medical instrument), it could cause the system to temporarily freeze. --Jeremy It is not clear how an attacker could exploit the lack of automatic garbage collection to contribute to a security breach. I would agree with you if you replaced "*more secure*" with "*more reliable*". Jim
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