27 Apr
2016
27 Apr
'16
1:24 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Noel Chiappa once stated:
"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least
one instruction---from which, by induction, one can deduce that
every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work."
Proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
From: Liam
Proven
There's the not-remotely-safe kinda-sorta C
in a web browser,
Javascript.
Love the rant, which I mostly agree with (_especially_ that one). A couple of
comments:
So they still have C like holes and there are
frequent patches and
updates to try to make them able to retain some water for a short time,
while the "cyber criminals" make hundreds of millions.
It's not clear to me that a 'better language' is going to get rid of that,
because there will always be bugs (and the bigger the application, and the
more it gets changed, the more there will be). The vibe I get from my
knowledge of security is that it takes a secure OS, running on hardware that
enforces security, to really fix the problem. (Google "Roger Schell".)
We're getting there---on current Macs, not even root can delete all files
anymore. You can still run unsigned programs, but you have to change a
setting for that.
For now.
-spc (Be careful what you wish for)