Hijacking

[janderson]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> Reply to Walter,
>>
>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:47:18 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I want to continue a bit in the Overloading/Inheritance thread which
>>>>> is getting a little long, on a closely related issue which I find to
>>>>> be important, but so rarely referred to that I had to come up with a
>>>>> name for it - hijacking.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm just wondering what the NSA is making of this discussion :)
>>>>
>>> Hopefully, they'll analyze the site, get excited about D, and use D
>>> for their next generation software!
>>
>> Fat chance, most of D's advantages don't exist in under ~5000 LOC and 
>> anything over that and the NSA won't touch it. Besides there isn't 20+ 
>> years of best practices in how to right secure software in D (as this 
>> is in C)
> 
> I'd think DBC would be a perk, if nothing else.  Assuming the NSA 
> currently uses C, that is.
> 
> 
> Sean

I thought NSA used ADA it was designed for such purposes.

-Joel