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PL/1: The COBOL replacement that never took off the ground except in the USSR
- musicale 4y agoPL/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 https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
- Rochus 4y ago[dead]