Ada Vs C (with some D mixed in)

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 10:00:44 PST 2009


bearophile wrote:

> Walter Bright:
>> SafeD is about guaranteeing memory safety, not other issues like integer 
>> overflows. Memory safety is a fairly specifically defined thing.
> 
> Then maybe the name of SafeD isn't too much good, because when I hear that name I think about a safe(r) language, and not about memory safety only. So maybe an alternative name can be invented... (but I have no good name to suggest you so far).
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

I've always understood the 'safety' here as safe from buffer overflow exloits and such, instead of safety against bugs in general. (security).



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