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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image
Date: 25 Jun 2004 08:54:25 -0600
Date: 2004-06-25T08:54:25-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com

In article <40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com>, Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:
> Buggy and insecure vs secure & slow are not the real problems. Existence 
> vs non-Existence is more an issue. We can claim and believe that an OS 
> in Ada would be better than what exists today, but it ultimately doesn't 
> win any hearts and minds.

VMS (not written in Ada) is considerably more secure than more popular
operating systems.  If someone magically rewrote VMS in Ada, even if
that made it more secure than it already is, VMS users would not flock
to it.

The notion of people flocking to a significantly more reliable operating
system has not been proven.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-25 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-24 14:21 Improving Ada's Image Nick Roberts
2004-06-25  0:20 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-06-25 11:30   ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-25 14:54     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2004-06-25 16:12       ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-26 20:26       ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-28 13:41         ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-28 14:39           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-29 11:39             ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-29 11:48               ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-30 11:46                 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-28 17:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-06-29 11:35           ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-26  0:01   ` David Starner
2004-06-26 10:12     ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-26 11:32       ` Luke A. Guest
2004-06-26 15:20         ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-29 18:44           ` Luke A. Guest
2004-06-29 22:25             ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-27 16:40         ` Pylinius
2004-06-27 19:04           ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-26 11:53       ` David Starner
2004-06-26 15:21         ` Nick Roberts
2004-06-27  3:50     ` Robert I. Eachus
     [not found] <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-06-04 20:38 ` Improving Ada's image Andrew Carroll
2004-06-05 12:49   ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-05 17:07     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-05 20:39       ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-05 22:18         ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-05 23:40           ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06  8:48             ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 21:34           ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-06 22:30             ` Marius Amado Alves
     [not found]             ` <40C39B01.5060806@netcabo.pt>
2004-06-06 22:50               ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06  2:53         ` Robert C. Leif
2004-06-06  3:25           ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-06 11:54             ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 18:21               ` Wes Groleau
     [not found]         ` <40C246A7.4070705@netcabo.pt>
2004-06-06  8:24           ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-06 14:25             ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06 18:14               ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-07 17:04   ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-07 19:06   ` Björn Persson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-30 11:46 Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-31 20:55 ` Improving Ada's image Björn Persson
2004-06-01  0:41   ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-01 11:23   ` Marin David Condic
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