Re: Web Development Using Ada?

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 07/27/2013 03:35 AM, Aay Jay Chan wrote:
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> What are the pros an cons of using Ada in web development? Is it feasible /
> practical? What would be your recommendation?

There are a number of sites out there with "Ada inside". One advantage of using 
Ada is that many of the common vulnerabilities don't occur with Ada. Brukardt 
discussed the Ada behind archive.adaic.com here in c.l.a several years ago. In 
addition to obvious things such as no buffer overflows, he mentioned that an 
attacker can get a server such as Apache to run a shell, which the attacker can 
exploit, while the Ada equivalent uses a non-exploitable Ada task to accomplish 
the same end. (I'm writing from memory here.)

Ada is a language for software engineers, so deciding to use Ada will quickly 
allow you to determine which of your developers are software engineers and worth 
retaining, and which are coders you'd be better off without.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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