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Re: Clearing sensitive in-memory data in perl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Duchovni)
Sat Sep 17 11:58:39 2005
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:40:26 -0400
From: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com>
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:53:20AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> >My view is that C is fine, but it needs a real library and programmers
> >who learn C need to learn to use the real library, with the bare-metal
> >C-library used only by library developers to bootstrap new safe
> >primitives.
>
> So wouldn't the world be a better place if we could all agree on a
> single such library? Or at least, a single API. Like the STL is for C++.
>
Yes, absolutely, but who is going to do it?
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