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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:16:47 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> <5ebe316d-cd84-40fb-a983-9f953f205fef@googlegroups.com> <2100734262424129975.133931laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ba346f17b503f6aa8ecbfd6d1e2a9f59"; logging-data="1714"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tEHrj5kNWEGXWNuGHXpCX/DeBLzQNEuU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:bJmo6o2uNhoTCmiziomVuA11Di4= X-Original-Bytes: 2184 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187035 Date: 2014-06-17T13:16:47-07:00 List-Id: On 06/17/2014 12:34 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote: > > P.S. Of course, I'm the same guy who has never managed to write a fully > working program in C. I refuse to believe that anyone can do so (and most of > the evidence is that I'm right :-). We have decades of experience that show that humans cannot write real-world C without creating security vulnerabilities. -- Jeff Carter "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Horse Feathers 46