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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e3f191debc78584 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:02:01 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <215154cd-f0bf-4138-b294-776d4e058592@o30g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: z2dmclbNoDkqHIft7wbRZw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17919 Date: 2011-03-07T05:02:01+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:44:06 +0100, Ho=C3=A0ng =C4=90=C3=ACnh Long a = =C3=A9crit: > 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 a= ny = investments (both human and financial) in this. Some others people may, = = but the implicit requirement for it to be freeware make it impossible (o= r = 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 =E2=80=9CThis would be nice to create t= his 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). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]