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: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 10:30:51 PST Message-ID: <3B698E37.9A73C93F@baesystems.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:30:31 +0100 From: David Gillon Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Avionics (Rochester) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) 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: <3B687EDF.9359F3FC@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com X-Trace: 2 Aug 2001 18:20:53 GMT, rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11108 comp.lang.c:71693 comp.lang.c++:79395 comp.lang.functional:7203 Date: 2001-08-02T18:30:31+01:00 List-Id: Goran Larsson wrote: > The report clearly shows that you can have problematic software in > any language. Perhaps more appropriately, choice of software implementation language cannot alleviate design failures at the systems level. OTOH choice of implementation language may well affect rates of implementation errors. -- David Gillon