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0 pointsAnimats9y ago0 comments

Almost certainly someone will wrote a more declarative language on top of it

Papering over the mold seldom works. It makes things easier, not more reliable. See C++ templates.

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Note that putting a language on top of the existing language won't prevent VM stack overflows of the type used in the attack. It's more likely to hide them.

drcode9y ago

A better example is Haskell, which usually compiles down to a low level C dialect.

amaks9y ago

Any language can compile to the low level C dialect.

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