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Fortran is probably as bad as C, and Ada isn't truly memory safe - they link to Ada/Spark which is but that doesn't seem to have much widespread use. https://w
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
Fortran is probably as bad as C, and Ada isn't truly memory safe - they link to Ada/Spark which is but that doesn't seem to have much widespread use.
https://www.adacore.com/about-spark https://www.adacore.com/about-spark
- KMag 3y agoIsn't Ada/Spark in avionics the main use case for Ada these days? So, huge share of a tiny market?
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> Isn't Ada/Spark in avionics the main use case for Ada these days? Hasn't it always been? I'm no expert but always assumed that it was used basically military and avionics, and perhaps other safety critical equipment.
- inamberclad 3y agoI think it's also used in high speed rail.
- BirAdam 3y agoAlso weapon systems.
- ocschwar 3y agoFortran is used for scientific computing. The crash of crashing a run on someone's Beowulf cluster is high, but the severity is low.