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Date:      Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:00:30 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Antranig Vartanian <antranigv@freebsd.am>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)
Message-ID:  <202409061600.486G0UrR046040@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <102A9A46-D577-4651-8418-5E7946EA30A0@vigrid.com>
References:  <202409060836.4868agnQ042462@critter.freebsd.dk> <102A9A46-D577-4651-8418-5E7946EA30A0@vigrid.com>

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Daniel Eischen writes:

> And back in the 80s, Ada was supposed to be the answer for safe coding language.

And it seems to have done quite well.

Show me any other language which has developed something like SPARK ?

I think Ada's problem was that it was a "DoD language" so everything was
priced 10 times what it should have been, (because why not when you can
get away with it...)

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