RISKS: Princeton discovers another Netscape security flaw
Simon Spero
ses at tipper.oit.unc.edu
Mon Mar 25 16:42:44 PST 1996
On 25 Mar 1996 Paul_Koning/US/3Com%3COM at smtp1.isd.3com.com wrote:
> The job of doing something like what Java claims to do correctly
> is basically equivalent to the job of creating an A2 grade operating
> system.
I'm not totally convinced that creating an A* implementation of the java
VM is impossible; the vm instructions are simple enough to define the
necessary abstract interpretations over, and denotational semantics
of,with a reasonable degree of confidence.
I'd definitely rather right a trusted application in java than in C
Simon
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