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If "safe" language would be real magic pill for safe programming, Ada would have replaced C and C++ in systems programming and safety critical applications lon

• steveklabnik 9y ago
  There are no magic pills. There's a lot more to languages than just the languages themselves.
• sitkack 9y ago
  And it should have. The use of C and C++ in safety critical applications should be classified as gross negligence.
• agumonkey 9y ago
  I believe Ada suffered from its DoD origins, from the era of giant monolithic project management and its verbosity. Rust is a different kind. Also, I've seen people doing generic low level network stacks (or at least articles about it) in Ada, seems lovely.
  • Nokinside 9y ago
    Ada is extremely well designed language. Verbosity designed for better safety trough readability and there is science backing it up.