@frabcus Encouraging the use of something other than C where something else is appropriate is a good thing, but never say never.
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@dsilverstone that's the same argument that makes me never get married. I think it's a flawed one! i.e. I can break the promise in extremes
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@dsilverstone but yeah, my main goal is to make people think. Most programmers most of the time shouldn't be using C/C++.
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@dsilverstone and good programmers should be working on higher level languages and concepts which reduce security problems
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@frabcus I fear that before you have "safe" languages you need a "safe" computing hardware platform, and that's somewhat harder to achieve.
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@dsilverstone just thinking... anything I can read on what a "safe" computing hardware platform would mean?
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@frabcus Sadly I don't know of any material on that sort of thing because thus-far hardware is 'unsafe' :-( (AFAIK)
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@frabcus TBF, right now I'm more worried about the latest knee-jerk political reaction to the *idea* of widespread effective cryptography.
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@dsilverstone I've got a slightly more complex project that I want to do to do with that as well - this C/C++ promise is meant to be tiny!
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@dsilverstone basically, have someone in every constituency visiting and briefing their MP regularly on it
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@frabcus An ambitious idea, but perhaps something worthwhile. Although it ought not be limited to one topic.
Jan 19, 2015 ยท 1:38 PM UTC
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