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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52
X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public
X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52
X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 20:11:33 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail
Message-ID: <3B68C447.4F6C2F6B@worldnet.att.net>
From: "Bruce G. Stewart" <bruce.g.stewart@worldnet.att.net>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD BA45DSL  (WinNT; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
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.
References: <bebbba07.0107292308.d1192fc@posting.google.com>
 <slrn9ma7qp.nac.randhol@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
 <yecofq03kih.fsf@king.cts.com> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com>
 <ppsemtojqkqsqpfvj1th3mae8b4vu1tg89@4ax.com>
 <tmfvrpmb575l80@corp.supernews.com>
 <slrn9mg902.aa.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <yu8zo9jcyah.fsf@mcowan-linux.transmeta.com>
 <9ka1e1$b5h$2@bird.wu-wien.ac.at>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 03:11:32 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.88.114.19
X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net
X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 996721892 12.88.114.19 (Thu,
 02 Aug 2001 03:11:32 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 03:11:32 GMT
Organization: AT&T Worldnet
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11022 comp.lang.c:71502
 comp.lang.c++:79233 comp.lang.functional:7142
Date: 2001-08-02T03:11:32+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Markus Mottl wrote:

> Any language that attempts to be called serious bootstraps
> itself. Needless to say that the first compiler of a new language wasn't
> written in the language itself, but the same holds true for C/C++...

Perhaps this is true of any language that aspires to be suitable for
writing compilers. It would be silly to restrict onself to writing, say,
an SQL statement compiler as an SQL statement.