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From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Vitaly Lugovsky" <vsl@ontil.ihep.su>
Cc: "Caml-list" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Q: safe language
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:48:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002101c25034$4f17da80$bd00a8c0@mini2k> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208301818100.2776-100000@ontil.ihep.su>

> > So for
> > example, C is not safe because you can derefence a bad pointer etc. and
> > cause a seg fault.
>
>  Run C in a bytecode "safe" environment (there are some C implementations
> with this functionality) - and it will become a "safe language"?

True.
If you choose the following definition "safe : which does not fail" then you
have

C < "safe" C < Lisp < OCaml

But you can't ensure the total safety of your program without using a
theorem prover such as COQ.
Simple OCaml sample :

List.hd [];;

Nicolas Cannasse

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-30 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-30  1:36 SooHyoung Oh
2002-08-30  8:41 ` sebastien FURIC
2002-08-30 12:44 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 13:05   ` David Frese
2002-08-30 13:46     ` Oleg
2002-08-30 16:09       ` Yutaka OIWA
2002-08-30 13:49     ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 14:04       ` J Farrand
2002-08-30 14:26         ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 14:48           ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2002-08-30 15:31             ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 14:55           ` Mike Lin
2002-08-30 14:58             ` Eric Newhuis
2002-08-30 16:03           ` Yutaka OIWA
2002-08-30 21:44           ` Oliver Bandel
2002-09-01  8:07         ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-30 14:50       ` David Frese
2002-08-30 15:38         ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-30 15:28     ` didier plaindoux
2002-08-30 14:41 ` Florian Hars
2002-08-30 14:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse

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