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Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017) by zerpelin68 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:02PM (#23060715)
Agreed there is not much you can do about a programmer using memory in an unsafe way...so what is the point?
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Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017) by steveklabnik on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:29PM (#23060900)
You can, in general. Just not for memory leaks.

The point is defense in depth.

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