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| From | cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.vms |
| Subject | Re: VMS Bootcamp |
| Date | 2025-11-18 13:06 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <10fhqvt$gt4$3@reader2.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <10ee667$1t1h$2@dont-email.me> <10f30sp$1koun$4@dont-email.me> <10fa4p2$121$1@reader2.panix.com> <10ffudr$1233b$3@dont-email.me> |
In article <10ffudr$1233b$3@dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote: >On 2025-11-15, Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote: >[snip] >> >>>Pascal only prevents the first not the other two. >>> >>>The other two are not as common in Pascal as in C, >>>because dynamic memory allocation is not as common in >>>Pascal as in C. >> >> Pascal is certainly an improvement over (at least) C and >> assembler languages in this domain: as I recall, it doesn't >> support arbitrary pointer arithmetic, and arrays are properly >> typed by including the array size in the type, and so on. > >C and assembly language (Macro-32 in this case) are not at the >same level when it comes to safety. > >Assembly language is much more dangerous than C because you can >create vulnerabilities with it that even a C compiler has a good >chance of stopping. > >Bliss, the other VMS system implementation language, I would place >somewhere between Macro-32 and C in terms of safety. Of course: these things are all on a spectrum, though I would assert that C is closer to assembler than it is to Pascal in terms of safety. - Dan C.
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