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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>> Did it cover open-source projects as well?
>> COBOL was popular at the time when development was centralized in
>> big companies, so it was easier to count the number of lines. Today
>> every kid is coding something and it's even hard to estimate how
>> much code is written every day that is just unnoticed. Just having
>> Windows as a major operating system (with milions of development
>> shops shipping software for it) gives a hint that COBOL might not be
>> a winner any longer.
>
> It covered projects for which people were paid to develop SW. When you
> include open-source and teenage kids creating buffer-overflow errors
> in their bedrooms, you may get a different result.

Teanage kids these days write c001 PHP web applications. Now buffer
overflows there, but any amount of security holes.

BTW, what one can learn from that, is, that it is the absence of
correct models and absence encapsulation of state and representation
that makes software bad (insecure / unsafe / whatever), not only the
buffer overflows.

Regards -- Markus