Language inspired by Orwell set

Language inspired by Orwell set to fool hackers: A new programming language from a group of Auckland-based computer-language experts is making waves in the software development world. Dubbed NewCode, the language promises to revolutionise software development, as the language makes it impossible to express a security vulnerability in a program's source code. ... "The compiler is itself programmed in NewCode," says Jones. "It made it difficult to explain to the compiler itself exactly what a security vulnerability was."

Posted by: e.p.c. on April 1, 2003 02:47 PM |

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Slightly acerbic and eccentric dog walker who masquerades as a web developer and occasional CTO.

Spent five years running the technology side of the circus known as www.ibm.com.

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