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On Mar 1, 2:44=C2=A0am, Ho=C3=A0ng =C4=90=C3=ACnh 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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