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The Microsoft Singularity
jose parinas writes ""Microsoft Research has published the first details of a wholly new operating system under development called Singularity, designed new from the ground up, built on a new language and designed with emphasis on dependability instead of performance.""
Nah - they'll just run a Virtual Machine on top of Singularity - and run Windows Server VX (Very Expensive) 2008 on top of it.
Which means your system will crash regularly and be slow as molasses - but this situation will be very dependable.
The CIOs will eat it up! After all, they won't have to re-train any employees or buy any new software (well, after upgrading the OS, of course, on a five-year locked-in subcription plan at a fifty-percent increase in rates due to the "dependability" feature, and buying the new Microsoft Office VX (Viciously Expensive) version released at the same time.)
This is a guaranteed winner for Bill!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
First of all, safe is implied by expressive. Side-effects like buffer overflows result from the language semantics not being expressive. For example, you virtually never intend for an array allocation to result in an object whose semantics are to walk all over other data structures that happen to have been declared in proximity.
Secondly, with that fact firmly in mind, you want to focus on expressivity so that your language helps you say precisely what you mean -- and you never mean "crash or open up security holes due to random interactions".
These guys really think Java and C# are "expressive" when it comes to programmer intent?
What abject failure to perform their duty!
Seastead this.