From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-25) on ip-172-31-91-241.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.0 tests=none autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1is=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_Ghlost=C3=A9ir?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:37:27 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <823cba3a-a205-3ebe-28f2-f7fce86f32e6@Insomnia247.NL> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7cc36d2e9ca95e5b2bdb3917b1f07765"; logging-data="13714"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19yvU90k+kOIjtUfSVWLtWJVaBeVG20JEohgCs6HtoCZA==" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vd26OZD9cdaZ9VZUhkstaMiPgYY= In-Reply-To: Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:66870 List-Id: On Mon, 11 May 2020, Rick Newbie wrote: "This link is probably not reported in the MSM very much but I think it's relevant. Not that I believe that Ada would have magically made everything better, but to base the decision to destroy the Western economies on code written in the C language that isn't even commented is somewhat out of dystopian fantasy. There's a reason C is not used in safety critical applications. I want to share this article here before it gets buried in the memory hole https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/2020/05/09/imperial-covid-model/ " Dear Rick Newbie: A publication by the Association for C & C++ Users criticizes comments since many years before COVID-19.