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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
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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