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|    Ron AARON to Krishna Myneni    |
|    Re: push for memory safe languages -- im    |
|    03 Mar 24 07:54:49    |
      From: clf@8th-dev.com              One of the criteria for 8th was security -- among other things, making       it very difficult to do unsafe memory operations. Within 8th itself you       can't; but of course, with the FFI anything is possible.              On 01/03/2024 17:54, Krishna Myneni wrote:       > I'm wondering what the CS Forth users and Forth systems developers make       > of the renewed recent push for use of memory-safe languages. Certainly       > Forth can add the type of contractual safety requirements e.g.,       > implementing bounds checking, of a "memory-safe language". Do we need to       > work on libraries for these provisions?       >       > Opinions?       >       > --       > Krishna Myneni       >              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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