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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit 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: 2001-08-03 01:25:02 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!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B6A5171.B28438C4@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B69DB35.4412459E@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 08:25:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.167.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 996827102 12.90.167.57 (Fri, 03 Aug 2001 08:25:02 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 08:25:02 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11177 comp.lang.c:71850 comp.lang.c++:79595 Date: 2001-08-03T08:25:02+00:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: > ... snip enumeration of petty little details handled by Ada > > And Ada does much much more ;-) > > There are simply a number of other little things that Ada does for you, > which _simplifies_ your job as a developer. The point of this post is that > Ada helps in the direction of _simplifying_ your software development. > > Combine that with a rigorous check of your code, you come up with a good > and powerful combination. Given that it's *free* (GNAT), all you need to > do is install it and try it. > > Act now, while the Internet supplies last! ;-) Not being an Ada user myself (real soon now), but based on my reading, I think you omitted that Ada has specific provisions for interfacing with other languages. This means that bodies of well tested (and documented) code can be directly reused. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@XXXXworldnet.att.net) (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce@ftc.gov (for spambots to harvest)