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From: "Dann Corbit" <dcorbit@connx.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
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"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote in message
news:5ee5b646.0202221911.3b96252a@posting.google.com...
> "tony gair" <tonygair@nounsolitations.btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:<a533vq$sts$1@knossos.btinternet.com>...
> > Ada and C++ offspring  include
> > 1) GNAT translator
> > 2) Gtkada
> > 3) ......
> >
> > GNAT and GTKada would not exist in their present useful
> > form without C++
>
>
> I am afraid this is MUCN (More uninformed CLA nonsense :-)
>
> Neither GNAT not GTKAda have anything whatsoever to do with C++.

If (on the other hand) they are built from [for instance] C or some other
language of that nature, then the problem of insecurity is not removed, only
abstracted to be hidden.

If some library routine somewhere deep down in the bowels calls gets() you
can-be/are still hosed.
In C (and Fortran and many other languages) the sources for undefined
behavior are plentiful.
scanf("%s"....
i = i++;
The list goes on and on.

If you use a library routine or tool composed using a dangerous language,
the result is a dangerous tool.
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