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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 23:26:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!uab.ericsson.se!erix.ericsson.se!mike From: mike@erix.ericsson.se (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Date: 3 Aug 2001 06:26:53 GMT Organization: Ericsson Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden Sender: mike@super (Mike Williams) Message-ID: <9kdg7d$17g$1@news.du.uab.ericsson.se> References: <9ka0on$me1@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbsre$8b0@augusta.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: super.du.uab.ericsson.se NNTP-Posting-User: mike X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11168 comp.lang.c:71824 comp.lang.c++:79560 comp.lang.functional:7239 Date: 2001-08-03T06:26:53+00:00 List-Id: In article <9kbsre$8b0@augusta.math.psu.edu>, cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) writes: |> Actually, a significant amount of embedded systems development is done |> in high-level languages (a fair amount is even done in Ada). Sure, a lot |> of things use assembler at some point (even Unix has some assembler |> routines in it), but it's usually not the focal point. And a not insignificant amount is done in a functional language - Erlang (http://www.erlang.org) - at least in the telecom's sphere. Users of languages such as C, C++, Ada etc often don't realise that there are even higher level languages! /m