Hijacking

[Sean Kelly]

janderson wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> I thought NSA used ADA it was designed for such purposes.

By my understanding, Ada was largely intended for robust systems 
control, while I would guess that much of the code written at the NSA is 
for in-house problem solving and that the safety provided by Ada isn't 
typically necessary.  I think it's likely that the NSA most often uses 
mainstream languages for the bulk of its work, tending towards 
systems-oriented languages for their speed.


Sean