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On Thursday, March 8, 2012 3:00:15 AM UTC-6, an...@att.net wrote:
>=20
> Then there is Microsoft which had never sold or support Ada, which=20
> means to masses as well as most schools, that Ada is just a historical=20
> reference of a failed attempt by the US DOD to create and use a single=20
> computer language for the entire US government.

Now there is an interesting point to consider. I once had an online convers=
ation 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 ho=
w many buffer-overrun attacks would have been thwarted if they had taken th=
e advice; or what the presence of tasking and select/accept would have done=
 to the architecture[s] of the Windows OSes.