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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image
Date: 25 Jun 2004 08:54:25 -0600
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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.