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Cyclone is a programming language based on C that is safe, meaning
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that it rules out programs that have buffer overflows, dangling
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pointers, format string attacks, and so on. High-level, type-safe
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languages, such as Java, Scheme, or ML also provide safety, but
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they don't give the same control over data representations and
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memory management that C does (witness the fact that the run-time
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systems for these languages are usually written in C.) Furthermore,
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porting legacy C code to these languages or interfacing with legacy
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C libraries is a difficult and error-prone process. The goal of
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Cyclone is to give programmers the same low-level control and
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performance of C without sacrificing safety, and to make it easy
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to port or interface with legacy C code.
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WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/cyclone/
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-- AlanE <ports@geeksrus.net>
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