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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-03 11:23:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B6ADFC9.B00E105B@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) 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: <9kci3p$ri$1@elf.eng.bsdi.com> <9kdeuv$dfh@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kecu6$f8i@augusta.math.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 18:23:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.123.247 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 996862991 158.252.123.247 (Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:23:11 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:23:11 PDT X-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:20:40 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11246 comp.lang.c:71960 comp.lang.c++:79768 comp.lang.functional:7271 Date: 2001-08-03T18:23:11+00:00 List-Id: Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > In article <9kecu6$f8i@augusta.math.psu.edu>, Dan Cross wrote: > >In article , > >Kaz Kylheku wrote: > >>But if you say ``the software is full of mistakes'', no further > >>qualification is needed. It's obvious who wrote it, and therefore > >>who made the mistakes. > > > >Hmm, I hear what you're saying; the only problem I have with `mistake' > >is that it has a less severe connotation (``oh dang; I made a mistake > >and ordered a coke instead of ginger ale...'', ``I made a mistake and > >burned the muffins...''). Maybe ``error'' is a better word. ``The > >software is full of errors.'' > > I hear you. But again, ``error'' has a weakened meaning in the context > of computing, because it's sometimes used to mean ``an environmental > condition that software has to deal with'' like running out of memory, > bad sector on a disk, unreachable server, etc. > > I don't know whether there is a word for ``mistake'' which also has > conntations of severity, so that it's inapplicable to situations like > ordering the wrong soft drink. I checked an online thesaurus, and > it came up with nothing. ;) Defect. Marc A. Criley Senior Staff Engineer Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com