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Except for C, Objective-C(++) and C++, all other programming languages, even systems programming ones do bounds checking.

And at least in C++, thanks to the STL or similar library there is the option to always enable bounds checking.

So even if the market didn't got hold of Algol, except for C and languages that offer copy-paste compatibility with it, all other ones do offer sane defaults in terms of security.




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