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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!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 05:36:09 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <215154cd-f0bf-4138-b294-776d4e058592@o30g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <2561745b-7720-470d-a6ee-67f1d0e8cff0@v11g2000prb.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:17922 Date: 2011-03-07T05:36:09+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:53:15 +0100, Peter C. Chapin = a =C3=A9crit: > With the rise of HTML5 and related technologies, it seems to me that a= = > nice Ada project would be an HTML5 rendering engine along with whateve= r = > else is needed to make that work (probably a lot... but I don't know = > much about HTML5). HTML5 is new and sexy and a viable Ada effort to = > support it would put Ada in front of many people who currently know = > nothing about the language. One could even imagine implementing the = > "security critical" parts in SPARK. That would certainly be value adde= d = > relative to the usual crop of C++ browsers. I'm afraid nobody would care. What made FireFox popular among = self-so-called =E2=80=9Cgeeks=E2=80=9D, was plugins (Mozilla get a lot o= f free advertising = via buzzes generated by the plugins/addons fever). Just a very few littl= e = people are interested in application source, even more true with a = browser. What matters is (ordered by relevancy): 1) is it free to downlo= ad = ? 2) will this play YouTube and DailyMotion medias fine ? 3) Will this = help me to look =E2=80=9Cgeeky=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cfashioned=E2=80=9D i= n others eyes ? P.S.1. HTML5 is still not in a mature stage. P.S.2. If JavaScript appeared to be unsafe, this was primarily because i= t = was a first target to attack. I am not sure even SPARK would be enough t= o = prevent all troubles when so much energy is dedicated to break security = = (that's not just a matter of things like buffer overflows or out-of-rang= e = values). -- = 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]