Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else?

[Trish Cayetano <trishacayetano@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 6:48:00 PM UTC+8, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-07-17, Trish Cayetano <trishacayetano@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, here is what I have noted as strengths and weaknesses of Ada. Let me know for any corrections and if you have anything to add... Thank you!
> >
> > Strength and weaknesses of the language 
> > Strength
> > -	Semantics - well defined even in error situations
> > -	Strong typing - can be used to reduce the scope (and cost) of analysis
> > -	Quality - successfully used in many high integrity applications 
> >
> > Weaknesses
> > -	Ada complete language is too complex. True or False? If true, how?
> 
> The Ada language is also nicely modular. This means that you only need to
> use the features which are appropriate to the problem at hand. It also
> means you can write full Ada programs in a core subset of the language
> without having to learn all it's features.
> 
> > -	Ada requires expensive compilers for large systems 
> 
> That's an incredibly sore point in some parts around here. You are
> hereby warned about some of the responses you might get. :-)
> 
> For the serious response to this, the expense of the compiler depends
> on the support required and the licence conditions of your code. If you
> are willing to release the source code for any redistributed binaries
> under the GPL more options open up.
> 
> However, this one item by itself puts Ada at a major disadvantage when
> compared to other options such as C and C++.
> 
> > -	Ada lacks that web presence greatly. comp.lang.ada is the only location on the internet with an active Ada community.
> 
> There are various resources scattered around the web, but comp.lang.ada
> does appear to be the only major place for active discussions (apart
> from some discussions on Stack Overflow).
> 
> > -	How is security a weakness? (Strength can be a weakness too?)
> 
> Is this homework ? (the question seems to be worded in a strange way
> and I don't really understand what you are trying to ask here).
> 
> Simon.
> 
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> Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Thank you so much for your response, Simon. 
The security question is my personal question. Since Ada is known to be time-tested, safe, secure and reliable, is there an instance where these could be compromised?