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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 15:30:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!titan03.ksc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!usenet From: "Samuel T. Harris" 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 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:26:56 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Aerospace Engineering Services Message-ID: <3B8431B0.C0E174FB@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <9m0193$grs$1@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B83F9D6.73CB3E02@west.rayt <3B84103F.30409430@sage.att.com> Reply-To: samuel_t_harris@raytheon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sstf-fw.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.2 IP19) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12296 comp.lang.c:76262 comp.lang.c++:84972 comp.lang.functional:7639 Date: 2001-08-22T17:26:56-05:00 List-Id: Garry Hodgson wrote: > > Ted Dennison wrote: > > > The manager in charge of that was > > just about the worst kind you can have: the idiot who thinks he is a genius. An > > idiot manager who knows he's an idiot and sticks to leading and listening can > > actually be quite good, but this other kind just destroys everything he touches. > > i once had a conversation with a friend, and commented that i liked the > fact > that my boss had a good knowledge of software. he replied that he had > the > next best thing: his boss didn't know software, but knew that he didn't > know > software. > 1. he who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him 2. he who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant, teach him 3. he who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, wake him 4. he who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him There is no reasoning with a fool, so don't bother trying. If he who is asleep refuses to be awakened then reclassify as 1. We'd all like to think we classify as 4 but actually most of us are a 2 or 3 in most areas of our lives. It is nice when we are occasionally recognized as a number 4 in some small area of our lives but none of us can be all knowing all the time. That is what makes living interesting. -- Samuel T. Harris, Senior Software Engineer II Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services "If you can make it, We can fake it!"