D vs. C#

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Walter Bright wrote:
> I've never been able to discover what the fundamental advantage of a VM is.

The only advantage a VM has over native code that I see is security. I'm 
  not talking about this process can't write memory of another process.

I'm talking about this process can't write to the hard disk, only to 
Isolated Storage; but this one can because it's signed by a Thawte 
certificate and the VM.

This is a lot more than disallowing pointer arithmetic. I'm not aware of 
any compiled language that has managed to do this.

On the other hand, most .NET developers ignore CAS (Code Access 
Security) in their apps, so it doesn't seem like a great advantage anyway.


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Julio César Carrascal Urquijo
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