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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP 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: 2001-08-13 06:28:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional From: Ted Dennison References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Message-ID: <3CQd7.250$D4.77@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:28:31 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:28:31 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11843 comp.lang.c:73883 comp.lang.c++:82065 comp.lang.functional:7502 Date: 2001-08-13T13:28:31+00:00 List-Id: In article <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com>, Will says... >theory: you could have write a better OS than NT, Linux, SunOS with Ada >Fact: there is *NO* Ada OS I hate to respond to an obvious troll, but I'm worried someone might take this seriously. There are actually quite a few OS's out there written in Ada. However, none of them happen to be named "Unix", or "Windows", so most people don't ever bump into one of them. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com