Who needs exceptions (was Re: Two languages, too similar, competing in the same space.)

[Michael Ströder]

Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> 
> IMHO, there is a huge difference between buffer overflows and exec/eval:
> -) exec/Eval just behave like documented, and like some "functions" might
>    pose security risks if passed untrusted data.

Exactly. You have to check the input no matter which programming
language.

> -) buffer overflows (basically fooling around with pointers) OTOH makes
>    the code do completly unexpected things.

And that's just because there is no such simple thing like string
handling in C.

>    (There are always C language modules ;) )

;-)

> For some interesting thoughts about runtime safety, one should consider
> Modula3, which does have the safe/unsafe concept explicitly in the language.

(Sigh!)

Ciao, Michael.