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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2001-08-12 12:19:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) 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: 12 Aug 2001 12:19:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <17cd177c.0108121119.1937a52a@posting.google.com> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.35.34.200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 997643992 26013 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2001 19:19:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 2001 19:19:52 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11823 comp.lang.c:73777 comp.lang.c++:81953 comp.lang.functional:7494 Date: 2001-08-12T19:19:52+00:00 List-Id: Will: > theory: Ada could have rule the world as a superior language > Fact: it did not It's terrible. But do you worry about the fact that Cobol, Fortran and Visual Basic do rule the world ? > theory: you could have write a better OS than NT, Linux, SunOS with Ada > Fact: there is *NO* Ada OS > > Why dont you Ada lovers go burn your NT, Linux, Sun OS box, because > theses OS are written in C. Hey, good idea - for Windows 98 it is tempting sometimes. If you think about the full development time (almost 20 years, with DOS, Win 3.1 etc.) of this gem of OSes, the millions of users-buyers behind it, and the resulting quality (especially the page-fault blue screens), it is definitely a success of the pointer-to-buffer macro-assemblers. > See if you are left with an OS to write your Ada application. > Die, Ada, Die. Beware the hatred overflow! ____________________________________________________ Gautier -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/e3d.htm