From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:53:15 -0500
Date: 2011-03-01T14:53:15-05:00 [thread overview]
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Gautier write-only wrote:
> IMHO an Ada browser would be something interesting in the sense that it
> could have a much larger proportion of common code (between Windows,
> Linux, and smartphone OSes). And probably less problems with safety issues
> that seem related to C.
With the rise of HTML5 and related technologies, it seems to me that a nice
Ada project would be an HTML5 rendering engine along with whatever else is
needed to make that work (probably a lot... but I don't know much about
HTML5). HTML5 is new and sexy and a viable Ada effort to support it would
put Ada in front of many people who currently know nothing about the
language. One could even imagine implementing the "security critical" parts
in SPARK. That would certainly be value added relative to the usual crop of
C++ browsers.
Of course what I'm talking about is a big project, although perhaps not as
big as a full featured browser.
If only I had another lifetime to live!
Peter
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 1:44 Can Ada be hacked? Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-01 2:15 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-01 7:01 ` Numerical software in Ada (was: Re: Can Ada be hacked?) Dirk Craeynest
2011-03-18 8:19 ` Numerical software in Ada Simon Wright
2011-03-01 7:41 ` Can Ada be hacked? Shark8
2011-03-01 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-01 8:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-07 4:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-09 9:10 ` Lucretia
2011-03-09 9:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01 11:17 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 11:39 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-01 12:00 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 15:06 ` Shark8
2011-03-01 15:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-02 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 12:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-01 15:40 ` Julian Leyh
2011-03-01 18:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-01 18:13 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 23:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-04 18:15 ` Tero Koskinen
2011-03-04 20:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-05 1:14 ` Shark8
2011-03-07 4:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-02 0:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 19:53 ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2011-03-07 4:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 11:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 13:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 18:05 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 18:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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