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		Animats on June 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple Contracts are Better Contracts: the Meltdow... Almost certainly someone will wrote a more declarative language on top of it Papering over the mold seldom works. It makes things easier, not more reliable. See C++ templates.

Animats on June 19, 2016 | [–]

Note that putting a language on top of the existing language won't prevent VM stack overflows of the type used in the attack. It's more likely to hide them.

drcode on June 18, 2016 | [–]

A better example is Haskell, which usually compiles down to a low level C dialect.

amaks on June 19, 2016 | [–]

Any language can compile to the low level C dialect.

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