From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,af0c6ea85f3ed92d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.222.71 with SMTP id qk7mr3052718pbc.1.1328854513161; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:15:13 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni7617pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Arbitrary Sandbox Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:15:09 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <8e83f2be-c6e9-4b0b-b53c-d50fe70d01e1@pq6g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.226.52.145 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1328854512 29677 97.226.52.145 (10 Feb 2012 06:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:15:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-02-09T23:15:09-07:00 List-Id: On 02/09/2012 09:41 PM, Rob Shea wrote: > >> The use of the term "Sandbox" suggests security is a primary goal. Ada >> was invented for the military. >> > True, and that is a bit point in favour. More along those lines: Ada is the language of choice for software that must behave correctly. It's the language of choice for SW that flies jetliners, controls passenger trains, controls nuclear reactors, and the like. Why is that? The answer is lives and money. If the SW fails, lives may be lost, and the company could be out billions of dollars. Ada has demonstrated that it is the least expensive way to get SW that won't do that. So if correct behavior of your SW is important, Ada is the way to go. You'll have to pay for decent SW engineers, and they're not cheap. If you don't care how the SW behaves, then you might be able to save some development money by using a popular language and the cheap people who use it. But if you've got decent SW engineers, a small group of them using Ada can usually produce better SW faster and cheaper than a large group of coders using a popular language. -- Jeff Carter "IMHO, Interfaces are worthless." Randy Brukardt 117 --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---