Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Brown Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:01:21 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20240305132240.241@kylheku.com> <87plw8pci5.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 08:01:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b4fd483861029d4eca5978ecaa265e3"; logging-data="1671101"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GIbpXsQ6fz/5YLBE0pA7cdPR5NtKrJDU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MXzic0O/XDPkhCvg+dEgvR85u6k= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2051 On 08/03/2024 00:43, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 14:34:50 +0100, David Brown wrote: > >> It used to be a running joke that if you managed to get your Ada code to >> compile, it was ready to ship. > > That joke actually originated with Pascal. I didn't know that. > Though I suppose Ada took it to > the next level ... It seems much more appropriate for Ada (though Pascal also had stricter checking and stronger types than most other popular languages had when Pascal was developed).