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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 11:59:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B69A48C.3E75C5D7@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr 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: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <9ka1e1$b5h$2@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B688D21.810C5706@eton.powernet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:05:48 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.135.96 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 996778764 151.168.135.96 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:59:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:59:24 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11122 comp.lang.c:71711 comp.lang.c++:79438 comp.lang.functional:7216 Date: 2001-08-02T14:05:48-05:00 List-Id: > > 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, > > Just a small nit - there's nothing to stop you writing the first > compiler of a new language using an interpreter for that language. I I believe the first version of GNAT was actually written in Ada and compiled with an Ada 83 compiler. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau