Ada, HCSS and more

[Caligo]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:16 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>wrote:

> (Report after a mistake.)
>
> This looks mostly like Ada advertisement, but it's readable (May 2008):
> http://www.mil-embedded.com/articles/id/?3277
>
> The Reddit thread about it:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lol4l/ccjava_a_gazillion_features_and_still_suck_at/
>
> From the article:
>
> >Last year's High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) conference,
> sponsored by NSA to address security-critical issues, featured an
> interesting presentation from Microsoft addressing such issues in the
> context of Windows. The primary sources of problems in Microsoft's
> experience are buffer overruns and integer overflow problems.<
>
> I have done some searching, but I have not found this presentation.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>

Walter once said that Ada is a failed language.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Clay_language_125339.html#N125402

Why?
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