Re: Heartbleed

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

Le Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:35:47 +0200, Simon Clubley  
<clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> a écrit:

> […]
>
> The only compiler implementation language I can think of which matches
> the above criteria is C.
>
> I really don't know how many times I am going to have to repeat this. :-)
>
> If you think I am wrong, then, while telling me I am wrong :-), please
> also tell me why Ada isn't in much more wider use than it currently is.

Because of the crowd and the economy.

Most people enjoy to follow the crowd whether or not it's for good,  
otherwise most people just become frightened of being isolated, and that's  
even more true with people which would like to become famous in some way.  
Then students prefers to study a language for which there are job offers.  
Recently (I don't know the exact date), the university in the town I live  
in, decided to give up with learning Ada, in favour of C/C++, for this  
exact reason.


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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University