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From: weedpacket@varteg.nz (Morgan)

On 2024-08-14 16:03, Lanre wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 4:28 PM Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net 
> 
>     Well, there is this:
> 
>     https://media.defense.gov/2023/Dec/06/2003352724/-1/-1/0/THE-CASE-FOR-MEMORY-SAFE-ROADMAPS-TLP-CLEAR.PDF <https://media.defense.gov/2023/Dec/06/2003352724/-1/-1/0/THE-CASE-FOR-MEMORY-SAFE-ROADMAPS-TLP-CLEAR.PDF>
> 
>     -Mike
> 
> 
> The source mentions Python and Swift as "memory-safe languages," both of 
> which are implemented in C and C++. How does that work if C and C++ 
> aren't memory-safe?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Lanre.


The same way Legolas can be called an elf even when the character is 
being played by a human actor: by not making category errors.

Even if the compiler of a Swift program has a memory management failure, 
that is not the fault of the Swift program, but of the compiler (and the 
language it is written in that allowed it).