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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-06 10:30:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.flash.net!easynews!feedwest.news.agis.net!us.telia.net!nntp-cust.primenet.com!news.streamgate.de!gerhard.nospam From: gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de (Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?=) 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: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:16:54 +0200 Organization: Streamgate AG Message-ID: <6ejmk9.f11.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal> References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b6a453c.1193942215@news.worldonline.nl> <9keejl$fhj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3c30da40.0108060848.796d9bd9@posting.google.com> Reply-To: gerhard@bigfoot.de NNTP-Posting-Host: h-213-196-84-177.hosts.streamgate.de X-Trace: news.streamgate.de 997118324 27269 213.196.84.177 (6 Aug 2001 17:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@streamgateag.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:18:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11401 comp.lang.c:72509 comp.lang.c++:80384 comp.lang.functional:7356 Date: 2001-08-06T19:16:54+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:56:23 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol wrote: >Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/ How can a *language* be free? An implementation, yes. A language, not in any way I could imagine. Gerhard -- mail: gerhard bigfoot de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://highqualdev.com public key at homepage public key fingerprint: DEC1 1D02 5743 1159 CD20 A4B6 7B22 6575 86AB 43C0 reduce(lambda x,y: x+y, [chr(ord(x)^42) for x in list('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')])