[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/5/22 20:20, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/5/2022 8:08 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 4/5/22 19:46, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> C and C++ are currently dominating the low level code area, but
>>> there are some well known problem.
>>>
>>> Two of those problems are:
>>> * buffer overruns
>>> * memory leaks
>>
>> Both those problems were fixed 40 years ago.  The fixes were
>> ignored and the company offering Safe C went out of business.
> 
> They were not fixed as the current C compilers allow
> the problems.
> 
> Maybe they could have been fixed, but that does not really
> help those with C code today.
> 


Let me re-word that.  40 years ago the problems were well known
and documented.  A company created a C compiler and support package
to fix it.  The industry rejected it because the cost (and I don't
mean the purchase price!) was too high.

It is interesting that very little of this made it into the C
Standard which is when they could have fixed all of it.  And
they can't use the backwards compatibility argument because
there was no compatibility maintained between K&R and ANSI C.

bill