PL/1: The COBOL replacement that never took off the ground except in the USSR (softpanorama.org) 7 points by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] musicale 3y ago ↗ PL/I-based Multics had few if any buffer overflows.[1]C-based Unix/Linux and other systems continue to have many.Segmented memory and a stack that grew up rather than down also helped.[1] https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadC-based Unix/Linux and other systems continue to have many.
Segmented memory and a stack that grew up rather than down also helped.
[1] https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf