> the lack of buffer overruns in Multics. However, in the > Unix/Linux/PC/Mac > world, a successor language has not yet appeared.
Work on the existing C/C++ language will have a better chance of actually being used earlier. Not that it removes the problem entirely, but it should catches a lot of easy stack smashing bugs. http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/bp/main.html -- Vincent Penquerc'h
