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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 11:06:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "Daniel Fischer" 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: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:04:13 +0200 Organization: Gueldenland MUD: telnet gl.mud.de 4444 Message-ID: References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kc2mo$rbb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 996775457 06 3342 FsEoSO0SJAxjr 010802 18:04:17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520060923510-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Pan/0.9.7 (Unix) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11115 comp.lang.c:71700 comp.lang.c++:79416 comp.lang.functional:7210 Date: 2001-08-02T20:04:13+02:00 List-Id: Hi, - followup ("Marin David Condic" ) > If it is true that "The more possible programming related defects you > need to consider, the more you think about your design" then it stands > to reason that we all ought to go back to programming in machine code. Like back when we were allowed to run our punch cards through the "computer" once a day, 5 days a week? Yes, I agree, that would help. On the other hand it would take years[1] to write "Hello, World" ,) Daniel [1] Adequate Hyperbole. -- IMO, anyway. end message by (Daniel Fischer ) clc FAQ: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html 08/02 Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica