From: <adaworks@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:36:01 GMT
Date: 2005-11-27T21:36:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5Fpif.25167$Zv5.13092@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3psop8e45.fsf@mobile.int.cbbrowne.com
"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote in message
news:m3psop8e45.fsf@mobile.int.cbbrowne.com...
>
> Where the CACM article has some things *right* is that there are
> plenty of systems where it would be way too costly to reimplement them
> in a buffer-overflow-immune language. People are not going to redo
> everything in PL/1 or Ada just because they have better specified
> string types. They don't have time.
> --
I am reminded of the well-known comment that "We always have time to
do it over but never time to do it right."
In the case of Ada, there is no need to "redo everything." The language is
rather friendly to other languages. As for PL/I, there are entirely too many
other problems with that language to use it for dependable software.
Richard Riehle
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2005-11-13 5:14 Buffer overflow Article - CACM adaworks
2005-11-13 7:35 ` tmoran
2005-11-13 8:49 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-13 11:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-13 14:58 ` Florian Weimer
2005-11-14 13:44 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-14 19:13 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-13 15:02 ` Florian Weimer
2005-11-13 15:44 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-14 14:40 ` adaworks
2005-11-13 23:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-14 6:51 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-14 17:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-15 9:14 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-14 7:09 ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-14 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-14 20:57 ` Simon Wright
2005-11-15 8:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-15 14:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-15 15:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-15 22:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-16 1:21 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-16 9:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-16 13:02 ` adaworks
2005-11-17 11:13 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-14 17:58 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-14 18:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-25 5:56 ` Christopher Browne
2005-11-26 1:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-27 21:36 ` adaworks [this message]
2005-11-28 12:12 ` Simon Clubley
2005-12-01 2:35 ` robin
2005-12-01 7:05 ` adaworks
2005-12-03 13:42 ` robin
2005-12-03 18:18 ` adaworks
2005-12-12 1:23 ` robin
2005-12-31 7:39 ` robin
2005-12-31 17:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-01 12:12 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-01 23:12 ` robin
2006-01-02 3:37 ` jimmaureenrogers
2006-01-12 22:10 ` robin
2006-01-03 9:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-12 22:10 ` robin
2006-01-12 22:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-13 19:53 ` Keith Thompson
2006-01-13 20:22 ` Dan Nagle
2006-01-14 17:50 ` Björn Persson
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2006-01-13 23:28 ` robin
2005-11-30 15:27 ` robin
2005-11-14 10:17 ` Peter Amey
2005-11-29 8:16 ` Harald Korneliussen
2005-11-29 10:48 ` Peter Amey
2005-11-30 21:21 ` Brian May
2005-12-01 5:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-12-01 9:01 ` Harald Korneliussen
2005-12-01 11:21 ` Martin Dowie
2005-12-01 17:58 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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