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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 22:00:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0EBE64.2070809@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability References: <3D0C7C0B.5000707@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 05:00:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.247.204 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1024376411 162.83.247.204 (Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:00:11 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:00:11 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26202 Date: 2002-06-18T05:00:11+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Ada expert witnesses would testify "Why yes, Ada would have > detected this error and never let it see the light of day - That's where I would bring up Ariane 5 :-) Yes, your honor, but when Ada detects errors, it blows up the rocket! Maybe this mail program written in C can be attacked by hackers through buffer overflows, but if you wrote it in Ada, every time it got a little unhappy, it would crash and lose all your work! And look, right there in their manual - it says that in Ada you *have* to use Unchecked_Conversion and Unchecked_Dealloaction. See, they're lying about all the checking they claim to do! Gee, this is fun :-)