Ada Vs C (with some D mixed in)

[Walter Bright]

Lutger wrote:
> 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).

Exactly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety