Re:Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability
by pjmlp on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:51PM
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> The further you go back in time the less relevant the question is.
As Hoare so elegantly described at his Turing award speech, regarding Algol compilers, done in 1981:
"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."
Algol dialects like ESPOL and its successor NEWP where used for systems programming the Burroughs B5500 in 1961, 10 years before C was born, nowadays still sold by Unisys as ClearPath MCP.
As Hoare so elegantly described at his Turing award speech, regarding Algol compilers, done in 1981:
"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."
Algol dialects like ESPOL and its successor NEWP where used for systems programming the Burroughs B5500 in 1961, 10 years before C was born, nowadays still sold by Unisys as ClearPath MCP.