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

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Wed Nov 17 10:35:10 EST 2021


On 2021-11-15 21:18:13 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> ACME_SERVER and SECURITY_SERVER are written in ADA.
> 
> Both are being rewritten in C.

A rewrite into C which was overdue, too.

Ada and PL/I both sharing the distinction of removal.

It'll be interesting to see what happens here with C code longer term 
too, given better access to ASan and other Clang tools.


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