From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 03:17:14 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-03-01T03:17:14-08:00 [thread overview]
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On Mar 1, 2:44 am, Hoàng Đình Long <long....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Ada community should spend more time on opensource software.
100% agreed :-).
> That's the best way to make Ada more popular. Why don't you make a new
> browser in Ada? Google Chrome, IE, Firefox are written in C++. They
> are hacked all the time. Isn't it wonderful if there is a browser
> which can not be hacked? Just think about this, an operating system
> like AuroraUX require too much effort. But a browser require much less
> effort (at least I think so).
IMHO an Ada browser would be something interesting in the sense that
it could have a much larger proportion of common code (between
Windows, Linux, and smartphone OSes).
And probably less problems with safety issues that seem related to C.
There was a discussion in c.l.a. following that announcement of my
Generic Image Decoder (GID)
http://gen-img-dec.sf.net/
Precisely, the good news for starting a browser: the basic tools in
Ada are there.
- retrieving HTTP contents, via AWS
- decoding images into bitmaps (display and cache), via GID
Someone having a clue about HTML decoding and page layout could have
relatively quickly a beginning of a browser, IHMO.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 1:44 Can Ada be hacked? Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-01 2:15 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-01 7:01 ` Numerical software in Ada (was: Re: Can Ada be hacked?) Dirk Craeynest
2011-03-18 8:19 ` Numerical software in Ada Simon Wright
2011-03-01 7:41 ` Can Ada be hacked? Shark8
2011-03-01 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-01 8:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-07 4:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-09 9:10 ` Lucretia
2011-03-09 9:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01 11:17 ` Gautier write-only [this message]
2011-03-01 11:39 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-01 12:00 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 15:06 ` Shark8
2011-03-01 15:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-02 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 12:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-01 15:40 ` Julian Leyh
2011-03-01 18:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-01 18:13 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 23:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-04 18:15 ` Tero Koskinen
2011-03-04 20:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-05 1:14 ` Shark8
2011-03-07 4:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-02 0:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 19:53 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 4:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 11:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 13:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 18:05 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 18:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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