[Haskell-cafe] US Homeland Security program language security risks

Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fischer at web.de
Sun Jan 6 09:08:31 EST 2008


Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2008 14:27 schrieb Mads Lindstrøm:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > Galchin Vasili wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/daisy/bsi/articles/knowledge/coding
> > >/295.html
> > >
> > > I stumbled across this page. It seems that Haskell and other strongly
> > > typed functional languages like Ml/OCaml will fare much, much better,
> > > e.g. buffer overrun. Thoughts . .... comments.
> >
> > Human kind has yet to design a programming language which eliminates all
> > possible bugs. ;-)
>
> And we never will. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem .
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Mads
>

Just because I don't know:
what bugs would be possible in a language having only the instruction 
return () 
(';' for imperative programmers)?
Cheers,
Daniel


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