Re: Ada the Future Language of Secure Communications.

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:

> I have recently finished work on a number of ciphers that are all
> written in Ada-95 and decided to try rewriting these in C++ with the
> full intention of completing that project but gave up when I realised
> this was a retrogressive plan.
>
> I do not have any shares in Ada or C++ so there is no reason form to
> be biased or even partisan about either language and its suitability
> for encryption programming but I must say that I found Ada so superior
> to C++ for writing cipher programs that it behoves ne to say so very
> publicly in case any body else is planning to do so.
>
> I have formed the belief that C++ is a terse, minimalised
> counter-intuitive language that owes a lot of its characteristics to a
> time when memory and computer power were not what they are today
> leaving an unfortunate legacy that is here to stay.  No doubt it can
> do everything that Ada can do but not quite so well and so smoothly.
>
> I am of the belief that Ada will always be the preferred language for
> secure communications.  This is important when considering that ‘bulk’
> copy ‘n paste encryption of entire computer drive files and ad hoc
> word processing is very much on the cards in the near future.


This is not limited to cryptographic algorithms.  C++ is useless.  C can
have some use (in writing a unix kernel for a small computer such as a
PDP-7).  But any program written nowaday on current hardware is better
written in any other language.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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