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Re:Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? by ghostly_s on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:51PM (#15845855)
> The system being secure is a secondary benefit to it being comprehendible and coherent to an individual.

This is a really interesting and compelling philosophy to me, but it’s the first time I’ve heard OpenBSD described this way! Why is this not mentioned on the project’s homepage?

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Re:Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? by foodstances on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:58PM (#15847430)
https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
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Re:Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? by kelnos on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:21PM (#15849283)
Nothing in that list says anything about being "comprehendible and coherent to an individual". I'd agree those are useful and good things, but security is indeed mentioned and emphasized there, and not as being secondary to aesthetic concerns.
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