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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 12:09:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD03D2B.6D61B117@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? References: <3CD01895.A2CD5F41@boeing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 14:08:27 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020280140 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 01 May 2002 15:09:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 15:09:00 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23362 Date: 2002-05-01T14:08:27-05:00 List-Id: > Coordination Center (http://www.cert.org/) advisories.". Buffer > overflows result from the use of weakly typed languages that do not > automatically check array accesses against array bounds by developers > who do not manually perform such checks. About half of all major > security flaws would not exist if the software had been developed in a > strongly typed language. We may be mixing definitions here. These bugs theoretically cannot happen in Java, yet compared to Ada, Java is weakly typed. (Depending AGAIN on how you define strong/weak typing) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau