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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40b9c99e$0$268$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <40ba315a$0$254$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <04udnR-eHNChzSbdRVn-vw@gbronline.com> <7J0xc.7371$8k4.269106@news20.bellglobal.com> <1086630278.542788@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <8xlxc.27603$sS2.845496@news20.bellglobal.com> <1086715817.122983@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1086733411.736049@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3Auxc.11998$XY6.1296622@read2.cgocable.net> <40C85035.4020706@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <40C85035.4020706@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:48:21 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1086958102 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:48:22 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:48:22 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1391 Date: 2004-06-11T08:48:21-04:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Rewriting an existing system in a new language is mostly a waste of time > unless a) The existing implementation is so bad that it can only really > be fixed by tossing it out and starting again or b) You intend to add > some significant new capability that can't be easily added to the > existing system. I'd agree that just because a program is written in C > or C++ is not on the face of it a justification for rewriting it in Ada. > Solid systems can and have been written in other languages and rewriting > them in Ada doesn't add any real value. It would be far more productive > to develop something *new* that gave the world some capability it didn't > already have. > > MDC You missed another good reason: c) improved security. Any daemon or process that interfaces with the wild wooly world out there, should be very secure (perfectly secure if theoretically possible). I think Ada can add some real value in this particular area, to the many "services" currently written in C/C++. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg