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From: tatd100@cs.york.ac.uk (Beelsebob)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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[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.....