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		jstimpfle on April 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf] What was made around them was only ever the gorilla with jungle thing. Fine for small programs, or larger ones within walled gardens. But not fine for infrastructure work.

pjmlp on April 25, 2019 [–]

Yet Multics was deemed safer than UNIX as per DoD security assement.

I guess security is not relevant as infrastructure work.

jstimpfle on April 25, 2019 | [–]

Oh, and what do they use today?

> I guess security is not relevant as infrastructure work.

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pjmlp on April 26, 2019 | | [–]

Ada and even Java (PTC/Aonix) when security matters.

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