Re: Can Ada be hacked?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:44:06 +0100, Hoàng Đình Long <long.hdi@gmail.com> a  
écrit:
> 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++. 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).
This is unlikely to occurs, due to the implicit requirement for it to be  
freeware and due to where companies have their interest. A project may  
born (really switching from talks to acts) if a company found some  
interest in it, and companies dealing with Ada are unlikely to found any  
interest in creating a browser implemented in Ada, or even a desktop OS,  
while they need Real-Time OSes and do not need a browser except the one  
they already use. They do not have time, nor they have any interest in any  
investments (both human and financial) in this. Some others people may,  
but the implicit requirement for it to be freeware make it impossible (or  
with probability close to null). Who would spend, say 5 years, to  
implement a browser or a desktop OS to not even get a single cent in  
return ? Nobody. If nobody do this (to reply your question), this is  
probably for the same reason you don't even yourself. Or will you ? (I  
guess not).

The context is fully blocking.

How many time a year do we see a “This would be nice to create this and  
that in Ada" (browser and OS beeing favorites there) ? An average of 10 to  
15 times a year I believe. None ever really raise or turn into some any  
concrete thing.

There are many and many other things which *should be done* and which  
nobody do, for the exact same reason (I use to try to launch some, with  
request for funding, but gave up with this idea, as no body ever replied  
to any request for funding).

I'm afraid your request has no way to go.

P.S. I do not know any way to hack JavaScript, neither (unlike Python,  
which can indeed be hacked... and so crashed). I do not really enjoy JS,  
while I believe it has this in common with Ada : cannot be hacked (I get  
that feeling far before I read your topic).

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