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 autolearn=ham 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: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-03 07:40:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!195.64.68.27!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.worldonline.nl!newsclients!news.worldonline.nl!not-for-mail From: info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) 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, 03 Aug 2001 14:07:03 GMT Organization: Go wash your mouth. Message-ID: <3b6aafe8.1221253931@news.worldonline.nl> References: <9ka0on$me1@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbsre$8b0@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kdg7d$17g$1@news.du.uab.ericsson.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: vp216-151.worldonline.nl X-Trace: nereid.worldonline.nl 996849428 2084 195.241.216.151 (3 Aug 2001 14:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@worldonline.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 2001 14:37:08 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11220 comp.lang.c:71900 comp.lang.c++:79657 comp.lang.functional:7256 Date: 2001-08-03T14:37:08+00:00 List-Id: mike@erix.ericsson.se (Mike Williams) wrote: > And a not insignificant amount is done in a functional language - > Erlang (http://www.erlang.org) - at least in the telecom's > sphere. Users of languages such as C, C++, Ada etc often don't > realise that there are even higher level languages! Don't be daft. We all know there is something called Lisp . Richard