From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Cc: anon@anon.org
Subject: Re: Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 07:32:08 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-03-08T07:32:08-08:00 [thread overview]
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On Thursday, March 8, 2012 3:00:15 AM UTC-6, an...@att.net wrote:
>
> Then there is Microsoft which had never sold or support Ada, which
> means to masses as well as most schools, that Ada is just a historical
> reference of a failed attempt by the US DOD to create and use a single
> computer language for the entire US government.
Now there is an interesting point to consider. I once had an online conversation with a guy who did a security-review for MS Windows (pre 95, it could have been 1.0) and he company recommended rewriting it in Ada. I wonder how many buffer-overrun attacks would have been thwarted if they had taken the advice; or what the presence of tasking and select/accept would have done to the architecture[s] of the Windows OSes.
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2012-02-17 17:22 Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:33 ` Fun with History: ³Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?² Bill Findlay
2012-02-23 13:29 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Marco
2012-02-23 16:23 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 16:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-23 18:20 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 20:32 ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-24 1:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-02-24 21:32 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 14:53 ` Marco
2012-02-26 18:02 ` J-P. Rosen
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2012-02-26 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-26 21:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-27 17:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-27 20:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-26 18:33 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 16:22 ` Marco
2012-03-06 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 10:33 ` Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-03-07 12:43 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-08 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 1:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 12:21 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-09 2:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 9:00 ` anon
2012-03-08 15:32 ` Shark8 [this message]
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2012-02-26 22:03 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented J-P. Rosen
2012-02-27 1:29 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 22:06 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-27 2:15 ` anon
2012-02-27 4:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-27 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
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