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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:

> "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.

s/Teanage/Teenage/;s/Now/No/

Sorry.

>
> 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