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From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>
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.
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:59:00 +0200
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Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> Failure of software is 100% due to mistakes made by the author. :-) This is
> true no matter what language you are talking about.

Well, there are these languages that are so utterly complex and
ill-designed that no existing compiler implements them correctly - not
even remotely...

	- Andreas

-- 
Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de

"Computer games don't affect kids.
 If Pac Man affected us as kids, we would all be running around in
 darkened rooms, munching pills, and listening to repetitive music."