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: 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: 2001-08-06 20:25:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!wesley.videotron.net!wagner.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B6F5E1A.CB312CC8@videotron.ca> From: Francois Labreque Organization: Me? organized! You've got to be kidding! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr 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> <3B6F312F.DA4E178E@home.com> <3B6F5AAB.CF3A6ECA@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:18:50 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.201.239.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.net X-Trace: wagner.videotron.net 997154725 24.201.239.113 (Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:25:25 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:25:25 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11444 comp.lang.c:72612 comp.lang.c++:80533 Date: 2001-08-06T23:18:50-04:00 List-Id: [de-cloaks] "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: > > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > > > In C++, you have the advantage that you can use the C bindings directly. > > It takes very little additional work to make C headers useable by a C++ > > implementation. > > This is a minor inconveniance for Ada, yes. But it is neither rocket > science, nor a difficult thing to do. I do it in my sleep ;-) Mentioning rocket science in this thread does not make for a very convincing argument! [back to lurking] -- Francois Labreque | Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a snooze flabreque | button on a cat who wants breakfast. @ | - Unattributed quote from rec.humor.funny videotron.ca