Re: Improving Ada's Image

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Buggy and insecure vs secure & slow are not the real problems. Existence 
vs non-Existence is more an issue. We can claim and believe that an OS 
in Ada would be better than what exists today, but it ultimately doesn't 
win any hearts and minds. An Ada OS that exists and is running is 
actually something people could look at and evaluate the relative merits 
of rather than try to decide if there is any merit to the hypothetical 
OS that we all seem to think might actually be better.

MDC

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> 
>>>(Or is someone suggesting that all Ada checks should be left in
>>>when developing an OS?)
>>
>>[...] Only in those (very few) places where speed is critical should
>>they be omitted.
> 
> 
> Are you suggesting that you would prefer a buggy/insecure operating
> system to a secure but slower one?  I don't think so, but isn't that
> what you wrote?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jacob


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