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From: "Pam Kelly" <al@adalinux.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
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The Ada versions won't need maintenance :-)

Seriously, to prove the point that Ada is in itself superior the Ada
versions would have to stick so closely to the design of the C versions as
to be more or less straight translations - which would mean they would
benefit from past maintenance of the logic.

"Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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>
> > Pick some applications with a long track record of vulnerabilities such
as
> > sendmail or bind. Rewrite them in Ada. There'll be more vulnerabilities
> > reported and the Ada versions will be immune. Publicise it.
>
> I wouldn't be so sure of that.  When the Ada version has had
> ten hours of maintenance, it will be more secure than the C version
> with fifty hours of maintenance.  BUT, the C version had _thousands_
> of hours of maintenance so long ago that few remember how bad it was
> back then.
>