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C with Safety - Cyclone

Posted by michael on from the whirling-away-bugs dept.

Paul Smith writes: "New Scientist is carrying a story about a redesigned version of the programming language C called Cyclone from AT&T labs. "The Cyclone compiler identifies segments of code that could eventually cause such problems using a "type-checking engine". This does not just look for specific strings of code, but analyses the code's purpose and singles out conflicts known to be potentially dangerous.""

4 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Just what I need... by mshomphe · · Score: 5, Funny

    buggy code to tell me when my code is buggy.

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    She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
  2. I am against this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    C is *supposed* to be dangerous, damnit.

  3. No No No by VFVTHUNTER · · Score: 5, Funny

    We had C, then C++, then C#. So shouldn't the next logical step be C followed by three vertical lines and three horizontal lines (that'd be C-tic-tac-toe)?

  4. "C with safety," or C with trigger locks? by Tsar · · Score: 5, Funny
    I like the notion of building protection against common, insidious errors, but why did they have to create a new language to accomplish it? I didn't quite understand that point.

    And isn't a cyclone an infinite loop?
    "Our ultimate goal is to have something as humongous as the Linux operating system built in Cyclone," says Morrisett.
    You have to like a scientist who uses the word humongous.