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From: mjsilva@jps.net (Mike Silva)
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: 2 Aug 2001 17:44:51 -0700
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tatd100@cs.york.ac.uk (Beelsebob) wrote in message news:<65bd5935.0108020356.16c61e15@posting.google.com>...
> [origional message]
> 
> So your point is that you can use a buggy microsoft implementation of
> C++ to write a virus.
> 
> Now then let me see... oh yes, you can use Ada (not even a buggy
> implementation of it) to cause the Arian 5 rocket to try and turn
> round in mid flight, and disintegrate into many tinny little burrning
> pieces.....

So if I can distill your message, a program that performs exactly to
spec is supposed to somehow reflect badly on the language that the
program is written in?

That old stinkbomb reflects more on the people who toss it than on
Ada.

Mike