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: 2002-11-27 09:31:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada compiler for .NET Date: 27 Nov 2002 09:31:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0211270931.64615740@posting.google.com> References: <7823N817@web2news.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1038418316 5201 127.0.0.1 (27 Nov 2002 17:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Nov 2002 17:31:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31265 Date: 2002-11-27T17:31:56+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote in message news:... > "Martin Carlisle" writes: > > which is based on the ACT tool JGNAT. More information and downloads > > available from http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/a_sharp.html > > I can't access this server. Is it just me ? Wasn't there a thread recently about people on foreign domains not being able to access .mil sites anymore? That may be the problem here too. (sigh) Just yesterday I was told that free trial downloads of the SoftIce debugger for NT device drivers (NT kernel-mode debugger) were no longer available because the government is afraid of terrorists using it. Not one person has ever been proven killed by computers under the control of malicous coders, while there are quite a few incidents of buggy code killing people unintentionally. If we were *really* concered about hacker-terrorists, or even computers causing meyhem in general, we should be discouraging unsafe languages like C, not debuggers. I know we in the US have no monopoly on bueracratic stupidity, but we do seem to be developing quite a panache for it.