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From: Attila Feher <Attila.Feher@lmf.ericsson.se>
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
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:34:58 +0300
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raj wrote:
[SNIP]
> The buffer overflow occurs because of an old and well known bug in the
> C libraries.
> Using Ada or another modern language like Ocaml or Mozart could have
> prevented this, thus stopping the worm before it infected the very
> first IIS server.

Just one _short_ comment to this over-discussed thread: C/C++ are power
tools.  They need professionals to work with them securely.  I am very
sure that lame programmers can do lame things in Ada as well.  Point is:
as you don't give a chainsaw to a debil and then complain about the
damage... the same way one should use or make use of powerful languages
like C and C++.  It is not the chainsaw and not C or C++.  It is the
people using it.

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