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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!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: Heartbleed Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 03:29:28 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1ljwj8f.1wqbhvuabsdw1N%csampson@inetworld.net> <51c7d6d4-e3be-44d5-a4ce-f7e875345588@googlegroups.com> <%J32v.70539$kp1.45343@fx14.iad> <87tx9so50m.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 8LgI+KCIbltzTeWRiUZDHg.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/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1800 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185798 Date: 2014-04-18T03:29:28+02:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:01:39 +0200, Simon Clubley = a =C3=A9crit: > (And if it makes you feel better, the Fortran compiler in gcc is not > written in Fortran... :-)) It may help to feel even better to know the first validated Ada compiler= = ever, was written in SETL :-P . I personally see no requirement for an A= da = compiler to be written in Ada. A statically typed and modular sufficient= ly = high level language may be as much fine as Ada. -- = =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