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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: alerting Ada advocates
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pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) wrote in message news:<a29ad4$q5k$1@news.btv.ibm.com>...
> And I happened to throw in a reply tying VHDL vs Verilog back to Pascal
> vs C, coupled it to Ada, and wondered why when we're becoming more and
> more security conscious, we're still coding in C, leaving prevention of
> buffer overflows and the like to due diligence alone.

Actually, it had 3 points when I looked at it (now 4 and
"Informative", since I haven't found anything better to put points on
today).

> No mods, and the only reply I got was that I should ditch VHDL and use
> the Verilog equivalent of lint.

I almost never get mods or replies to slashdot posts I make, and your
karma looks way better than mine.