One of the worst UI ever

Posted Jan 28, 2026 16:01 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: One of the worst UI ever by Heretic_Blacksheep
Parent article: A critical GnuPG security update

To be fair, in 1997 gcc was very widespread but the Ada frontend to gcc wasn't. Irrespective of the relative merits of Ada vs. C as programming languages, if you wanted wide portability for a tool like GnuPG, then C was at least a very strong contender because C compilers were a lot easier to come by than Ada compilers.