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,c610ef77fd20757a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-18 06:10:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!portc03.blue.aol.com!newsjunkie.ans.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!not-for-mail From: pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: alerting Ada advocates Date: 18 Jan 2002 14:10:44 GMT Organization: IBM Global Services North -- Burlington, Vermont, USA Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0201171152.422499ee@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kimon.btv.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1011363044 26804 9.61.131.227 (18 Jan 2002 14:10:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 2002 14:10:44 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.0 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19045 Date: 2002-01-18T14:10:44+00:00 List-Id: In article <4519e058.0201171152.422499ee@posting.google.com>, dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes: > Peter Hermann wrote in message news:... >> subject: Pascal perspective >> Newsgroups: comp.software-eng > > There's a posting on Slashdot today (in the VHDL topic) that > promulgates the "designed by committe" myth too. Fortunately, I just > happened to have 5 moderator points today. :-) And I happened to throw in a reply tying VHDL vs Verilog back to Pascal vs C, coupled it to Ada, and wondered why when we're becoming more and more security conscious, we're still coding in C, leaving prevention of buffer overflows and the like to due diligence alone. No mods, and the only reply I got was that I should ditch VHDL and use the Verilog equivalent of lint. Security concerns come up frequently on /. and some fraction of the time I try to throw in a plug for strong typing. I don't know if I'd rather be ignored or flamed, but except for spawning the "Ada was a babe!" subthread, I've always been ignored. Dale Pontius NOT speaking for IBM