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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:15:01 -0800
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On 2/28/2011 5:44 PM, Hoàng Đình Long wrote:

>
> I think Ada community should spend more time on opensource software.
> That's the best way to make Ada more popular. Why don't you make a new
> browser in Ada? Google Chrome, IE, Firefox are written in C++.

Waste of human time :)

Browsers are dime a dozen, so are databases and OS'e, why Keep
re-inventing the same wheel over and over.


> They
> are hacked all the time. Isn't it wonderful if there is a browser
> which can not be hacked? Just think about this, an operating system
> like AuroraUX require too much effort. But a browser require much less
> effort (at least I think so).

Browser does take huge effort to do. 1 million lines of code
to start with. A real one at least.

Ada, the language is good for computational sciences and
heavy algorithmic type applications, and there is a strong
need for more and more of these applications. These applications
are very large and would benefit the most from the type of language
attributes that Ada has.

see

http://libre.adacore.com/multimedia/aa_videos/aa_stift_choose.htm

Yet, I find Ada missing from this field. As Fortran
is dying away, The field has been overtaking by scripting
languages and dynamically and interpretive ones with little
strong typing and any support for modularity for making
large robust numerical software.

An open source project in Ada in such a field, would be
to develop packages for numerical solution of PDE's, packages
for finite elements, packages for mesh generations, etc...

Why not Blas in Ada for example?

There are numerical libraries now on the net in C++, Python,
Matlab, and even Java. Even Javascript seem to have more
numerical libraries for it than Ada does.

These things take years to do, as numerical software
is hard, and a correct and optimized one is even harder
to make.

my 2.5 cents.

--Nasser