I got introduced to computers with a Timex 2068 back in 1986, but as a language geek I always researched the old systems.
Additionally I managed to use a few languages of the Algol family for systems programing, hence strenghting my belief in safe systems programmin.
One of the best quotes I keep recalling is the Turing Award speech from Hoare, where he mentions his company customers were against having support to disable bounds checking in Algol compilers. Yet here we are.
Every time I check the CVE list I wish UNIX had never left AT&T labs.
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Many thanks for the history part.
I got introduced to computers with a Timex 2068 back in 1986, but as a language geek I always researched the old systems.
Additionally I managed to use a few languages of the Algol family for systems programing, hence strenghting my belief in safe systems programmin.
One of the best quotes I keep recalling is the Turing Award speech from Hoare, where he mentions his company customers were against having support to disable bounds checking in Algol compilers. Yet here we are.
Every time I check the CVE list I wish UNIX had never left AT&T labs.