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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:38:35 -0600
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"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote in message
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> 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...)

With or without the smiley, your comment is just the kind of unsupported
anti-Ada stuff that we see all the time. Why would the Internet not be used?
Ada is a fully general purpose programming language, and if the Internet was
mostly written in Ada, the applications and uses would be pretty much the
same (just with fewer trivial bugs).

The web server and search engine we run are completely written in Ada; our
mail server is partially written in Ada. As a client, you won't notice any
difference (other than the slowness of being behind a fairly slow Internet
connection).

                       Randy Brukardt