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Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Finally, if there did exist an open-source browser that was reliable,
> secure, and gave the user control of the process, I suspect it would
> become fairly popular. People would look at the source to see why it's
> so much more reliable/secure/whatever than other browsers, and see that
> it was in Ada. They might suspect that Ada had something to do with its
> good features. More people might decide to use Ada in the future as a
> result.

The closest thing we have to this now is Mozilla, which is in C++.

It will be interesting to see how well GPS turns out.