[Info-vax] NSA on programming languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/15/2022 5:34 AM, IanD wrote:
> On Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 1:01:58 PM UTC+11, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI_SOFTWARE_MEMORY_SAFETY.PDF
>>
>> National Security Agency | Cybersecurity Information Sheet
>> Software Memory Safety
>>
>> <quote>
...
>> Examples
>> of memory safe language include C#, Go, Java, Ruby™, Rust, and Swift.
>> </quote>

>> PS: Only Java and Ruby are currently available on VMS.
> 
> Functional languages?

> Seems there is a lot of things we can do to push for better software outcomes

FP centric languages and FP centric applications seems
to be very rare.

Most languages today has some FP support, but mostly used
to pass lambdas to list processing methods and similar,
which I consider convenience not FP centric.

Arne