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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-13 08:32:46 PST From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional 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. Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:31:43 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Message-ID: <3b77f08f$1@pull.gecm.com> X-Trace: 13 Aug 2001 16:21:51 GMT, sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11855 comp.lang.c:73923 comp.lang.c++:82107 comp.lang.functional:7505 Date: 2001-08-13T16:31:43+01:00 List-Id: er, fiction, actually... Raytheon's RT-Secure is an all Ada product and I think Aonix have another. Not sure what Rational R-1000 environment was writen in but that was an Ada-environment in that the 'OS' commands were Ada subprogram calls, etc... I'll snip myself here before rambling much further ;-) > theory: you could have write a better OS than NT, Linux, SunOS with Ada > Fact: there is *NO* Ada OS > > Why dont you Ada lovers go burn your NT, Linux, Sun OS box, because > theses OS are written in C. > See if you are left with an OS to write your Ada application. > Die, Ada, Die.