From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-91-241.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: US Government looking into memory safe programming Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:52:33 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:52:33 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="48042f6812e4fc4dc38b8a70e91614c4"; logging-data="1912670"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194ligkmhrPWVEFdNvmFm74ApD2JQugWnI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fn4fHWCqw+0bgucnoq1a5v2pY8= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65718 List-Id: On 24/09/2023 23:28, ajdude wrote: > The US Government is requesting information on adoption of memory safe > programming languages and open-source software security. They’re currently > taking comments until October 9th. I think this is a good opportunity to help > bring Ada back into the spotlight. > > https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/10/2023-17239/request-for-information-on-open-source-software-security-areas-of-long-term-focus-and-prioritization History is repeating itself. How long before they relax the requirements and idiots say "we can use C again, yay!"?