On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Roshan Mathews <rmath...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
> <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  The point is that so called compiled languages provide more security
> >  loop-holes than interpreted ones. C++/C for example provide liberal
> >  scope for buffer overflow exploits due to use of pointers and manual
> >  memory management.
> >
> >  Accessing any buffer outside the scope of your data structures is always
> >  a potential window for the malicious hacker for buffer overflow
> exploits.
> >  And C/C++ are notorious for making this easy providing you with
> >  different ways of shooting yourself in the foot...
> >
> That would be because C/C++ are weakly typed, not because they are
> compiled.  Java is compiled right, does it have buffer overruns?
>
> I would assume that people are arguing for strong typing for
> efficiency.  A language with run time dynamic dispatch, like say
> Python, will always be slower than something which is statically
> typed.
>
> The "looks like Python, runs like C++" is more than just marketing
> speak.  I don't know anything about Go, beyond that what I saw in the
> Youtube video.  But that's the exact same "ideal characteristic" that
> other language designers are aiming for, from the few that I know.
>

 If you haven't noticed, "Looks like Python, runs like C++" has a lot of
 marketing potential, since Python has a reputation to be the cleanest
 of languages w.r.t syntax and readability and C++, that of power and speed.
  So if you say this is not marketing speak, I am not buying it...

 If you are designing a language which you claim is ultimate in this
 decade, that is exactly the punch line you want...



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