Being safe on the internet (was Re: Here we go again - ISP DPI, but is it interception?)
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Mon Aug 9 19:41:04 BST 2010
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<1B296629-F2EB-4A8D-8540-6912FC8E457F at sourcetagged.ian.co.uk>, Ian Mason
<ukcrypto at sourcetagged.ian.co.uk> writes
>Talking of safe languages no one has mentioned my old personal
>favourite Algol 68. it was even used as the systems programming
>language for a capability architecture processor and OS by Maurice
>Wilkes, the late Roger Needham, and others.
I learnt most of my high level programming using Algol, in the late 60's
(on an ICL 4100). I even started a project to write my own compiler for
it. Hence my despair at the apparent inadequacies of C.
--
Roland Perry
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