Re: An interesting ADA article..

["Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>]

robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
>...one of the reporters asked
>
>"if all computer programs are written in the same language
>and can be easily understood, won't that create a serious
>security issue, since it means the Soviets can easily
>understand our programs?"
>
>or something like that :-) :-)


That's a good'un.  It makes me wonder if perhaps the famous ongoing C
obfuscation contest really started out as a DoD software security project?

(obligatory note -- I'm not slamming C; in fact it's my main paycheck
language)

Mike