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Why isn't the compiler frontend called fucc?
by geocar 1y ago
Why isn't the compiler frontend called fucc?
- pizlonator 1y agoI was so tempted to call it that
- RBO2 1y agoWhy not call it secc ("sexy") ?
- pizlonator 1y agoIt's poor form to put the word "secure" (or any derivative of it) into a product that aims to provide more security. Reason: there's no solution to the security problem. Fil-C doesn't solve security. Does it make things more secure? Yes! But there will always be more security issues. So imagine if I had called it "Secure C" (and then had a sexy compiler), and 10 years from now someone finds a comprehensive solution to the string injection problem in Secure C. What do they call their thing? Securer C? Secure C Pro? Secure Secure C?
- RBO2 1y agoThese are good points but no name is ever perfect. Just felt that secc was more memorable and would offer more levarage to this great project :-)
- kragen 1y ago"Filthy" is already extremely memorable.
- kragen 1y agoI agree. I'd add that security is always relative to not just an existing level of security but to a threat model. There are threat models relative to which Fil-C doesn't make things more secure. (I can't think of one under which Fil-C makes things less secure, though.) A similar criticism applies to "new". Newcastle is named after a castle built 945 years ago. Neuchâtel is named after a castle built 1014 years ago. Xavier (from Basque "etxeberri", "new house") is named after a castle built in the 10th century. Windows NT "new technology", etc.
- jibal 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism
- ctrust 1y agoIt isn't too late!