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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to All   
   Re: VMS Bootcamp   
   08 Nov 25 23:09:29   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 17:14:33 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 11/8/2025 4:59 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Fri, 7 Nov 2025 15:01:23 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Anyway the memory safety of Rust makes it clearly different from   
   >>> C/C++, but if we look at languages typical used for business   
   >>> applications, then memory safety is common.   
   >>   
   >> Do “business applications” need to do network connections?   
   >   
   > Absolutely.   
   >   
   > Requests coming in over the network. Accessing database servers,   
   > message queue servers, cache servers etc. during processing.   
      
   Those are well-known sources of memory errors, buffer overflows,   
   security vulnerabilities caused by (accidentally or deliberately)   
   corrupted packets etc.   
      
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