Re: Can Ada be hacked?

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Feb 28, 7:15 pm, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> On 2/28/2011 5:44 PM, Hoàng Đình Long wrote:
>
> > I think Ada community should spend more time on opensource software.
> > That's the best way to make Ada more popular. Why don't you make a new
> > browser in Ada? Google Chrome, IE, Firefox are written in C++.
>
> Waste of human time :)
>
> Browsers are dime a dozen, so are databases and OS'e, why Keep
> re-inventing the same wheel over and over.

Well, first off this is *ONLY* a valid attitude/assumption IF one *IS*
implementing the same thing, or very nearly; it holds little weight
when
the design/structure is radically different: we can see this proved in
a
simple way with algorithms. Consider a bubble-sort and a shell-sort,
the
outputs of the two are the same, but the running-times are different.

If all you're going to do is make the next *nix then I quite agree;
but
if you were to do something really different, like Oberon, then that's
actually something different [that the usual fare].

>
> Browser does take huge effort to do. 1 million lines of code
> to start with. A real one at least.

That's a non-argument; most significant projects are going to have
such a large number of lines.