Software Assurance Reference Dataset

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 00:36:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://samate.nist.gov/SRD/view.php?count=20&first=0&sort=asc
>
> This is a list of security vulnerabilities in languages 
> including C/C++. 88,737 of them (!).
>
> It's an interesting list, and an opportunity for D. I once said 
> that my job was to put Coverity out of business. The more of 
> these issues D can automatically prevent with @safe, the better.

As expected, most of them would be automatically fixed by using a 
descendent from Algol/Mesa/Cedar branch of languages.

I look forward that @safe can provide a similar set of guarantees.

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Paulo