Language Inspired by Orwell set to Fool Hackers

“Dubbed NewCode, the [programming] language promises to revolutionise software development, as the language makes it impossible to express a security vulnerability in a program’s source code. ‘We were inspired by Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which there is a language called NewSpeak which made it impossible to express political dissent,’ says the group’s leader, Julia Jones…. ‘The compiler is itself programmed in NewCode,’ says Jones. ‘It made it difficult to explain to the compiler itself exactly what a security vulnerability was.'” Tim Ebringer

Language Inspired by Orwell set to Fool HackersSydney Morning Herald)

April Fool’s! The article quotes people named Julia and O’Brien (names of Winston Smith’s love interest and interrogator from Orwell’s book).

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