Posted by John Viega on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 (07:21 AM) GMT

This research project is a C-like language that is type safe, meaning not only are buffer overflow problems not an issue, but also there's not much of a performance hit, because many problems are found at compile-time instead of run-time.

One good thing about Cyclone is that it's pretty easy to port legacy C applications over to it. This language definitely can help C programmers realize much of the advantages of C, while freeing them to worry about more mundane security problems that all developers should be worrying about!