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Subject: Re: Ada the Future Language of Secure Communications.
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:36:54 +0100
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Le Sat, 07 Dec 2013 17:38:00 +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon  =

<pjb@informatimago.com> a =C3=A9crit:
> This is not limited to cryptographic algorithms.  C++ is useless.  C c=
an
> have some use (in writing a unix kernel for a small computer such as a=

> PDP-7).  But any program written nowaday on current hardware is better=

> written in any other language.

Small talk: C can have all uses as a target language. C is better as a  =

target language than as a language for handwritten application, rather t=
he  =

opposite for Ada (while there are be exceptions for both cases). Even a =
 =

kernel for a small computer would be better written in Ada if handwritte=
n,  =

and better be C if preferably generated by an Ada compiler or from some =
 =

formal methods (there exist formalisations of subset of C for various  =

assisted proof environment and a formally certified C compiler, name  =

CompCert).


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity