[Info-vax] ADA and VMS (was Safer programming languages)

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 11/15/2021 5:22 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-11-15 kl. 22:18, skrev Robert A. Brooks:
>> On 11/15/2021 4:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> This talk of Ada, VMS and Systems programming has raised a new
>>> question in my mind.
>>>
>>> Given that Ada got it's start on VMS (one of the first validated
>>> Ada Compilers was on VMS) has any attempt ever been made to write
>>> any part of VMS using Ada?  Device Driver? Anything?
>>
>> ACME_SERVER and SECURITY_SERVER are written in ADA.
>>
>> Both are being rewritten in C.
>>
> 
> OK! Could that answer why our ACMELDAP makes the ACME_SERVER crash
> multiple times each day stopping our roll-out of the switch from
> local UAF to AD/LDAP login authentication?
> 
> And does "being rewritten in C" imply that there is a new version
> in the works? 

Yes, but I don't know if it'll be available for IA64 and Alpha.
It could be, but I'm not at all involved in that project.

> And that our current ACME_SERVER that crashes all
> the time is *currently* written in Ada? Interesting...

The one you are running is definitely written in ADA.

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                       -- Rob