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		strken on Oct 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrot... Is COBOL actually memory safe in the same way Rust is memory safe? I thought it was just "we don't allow dynamic allocation", and I'd assume programmers often implement their own half-baked dynamic allocation on top.

rightbyte on Oct 2, 2024 [–]

Just like Rust the 'use after free' problem becomes the 'use after it does not make sense' problem instead. Which Valgrind wont find for you either.

I think new Cobol has 'allocate' and 'free' though.

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