From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-28 10:06:09 PST Message-ID: <3DE65A5F.2090209@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada compiler for .NET References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:03:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1038506592 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:03:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:03:12 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31295 Date: 2002-11-28T13:03:11-05:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Software is not alone in this policy. I have attended two talks by Dr. > John H. Marburger, III, Science Adviser to the President and Director of > the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He stressed that the > molecular biologists and microbiologists should be careful on what we > publish. Now, we should ask ourselves, what language would we use for > any significant weapon or system that requires high reliability and how > simple is it to obtain an excellent compiler? I do not know a good > solution to the tradeoff between advancing our software technology and > security. > Bob Leif I suppose that if the terrorist had to use C/C++ to make a bomb, there would be a greater chance of it blowing up in their face ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg