Hijacking

[BCS]

Reply to 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
> 

The only experience I have (yes I do have a tiny bit) is in C and is only 
about 500 loc.