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Re: You don't want to read this....
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Alan Grimes wrote:
> The method they are using to accomplish
> this is to first prohibit direct access to the machine. All programs must
> be compiled or interprited. Then, in order to solve the contention
> problems, restrict each program's access to symbols that allow the program
> to talk about various services. Thereby access can be controlled and
> servers can be written such that they provide "safe symbols".
>
Which is why, of course, it's destined for the scrap heap.(Compare C vs.
Ada, Turing, Pascal, COBOL, and every other language that tried to keep
the programmer under control)
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