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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 9 Mar 2005 15:12:38 -0800
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Adrien Plisson wrote:

[ ... ]

> about Air Traffic Control:
>
> C++ Advocate: "The world WOULDN'T be safer if they used C++"

But they did, and do use C++ on regular basis.  E.g.:

http://www.barco.com/airtrafficcontrol/en/products/product.asp?element=1833

> Ada Advocate: "The world IS safer, because of the cool system we
wrote"

Right -- that's why things like this:

http://www.computing.co.uk/news/1130528

never happen!

Serously though, if you think the ATC system is written exclusively or
even primarily in Ada, you're simply mistaken. It's certainly true that
for some time now, SOME of the new development has been done in Ada,
but it's also true that some of the new development has been done in
C++. It's also true that there's LOTS of ancient code written in things
like JOVIAL.

> about buffer overflows:
>
> Ada advocate: "Networks WOULD be more secure if you used Ada"
> C++ advocate: "Networks WOULD be more secure if we used Ada"

So far, no C++ advocate seems to have said anything similar to what you
claim, but in a way you're probably right. If we depended on Ada to do
the job, the Internet (for one) would be drastically more secure,
though only because nobody used it! :-) (<- explicit smiley for those
who seem to need them...)

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.