From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!peer02.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx04.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.newsdemon.com:119 From: Rick Newbie Subject: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 18:49:17 UTC Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:49:17 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 1324 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3443601560 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58649 Date: 2020-05-11T11:49:17-07:00 List-Id: This link is probably not reported in the MSM very much but I think it's relevant. Not that I believe that Ada would have magically made everything better, but to base the decision to destroy the Western economies on code written in the C language that isn't even commented is somewhat out of dystopian fantasy. There's a reason C is not used in safety critical applications. I want to share this article here before it gets buried in the memory hole https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/2020/05/09/imperial-covid-model/