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-Thread: 103376,916445ab8df11530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Props to Jean-Pierre! Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:19:53 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <834mud.p6b.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1141808469 7379 195.25.228.57 (8 Mar 2006 09:01:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:01:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3292 Date: 2006-03-08T09:19:53+01:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley a �crit : > Thanks go to Jean-Pierre Rosen for taking the time to write a letter, > "Lack of Ada Reflects Software Immaturity", to the editors of > "Communications of the ACM" that they published in the March '06 issue. > > It was in a response to an article titled "Detection and Prevention of > Stack Buffer Overflow Attacks" (11/2005). > > Money quote (as they say :-)... > > "Many of the problems addressed in the article follow from not using > appropriate programming languages, an issue Ada solved more than 20 > years ago." > Yeap. Couldn't resist, when I saw people, in 2006, comming with the bright new idea that the programmer cannot always be trusted, and that it would be good to have the language perform automatically some checks. Sigh.... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr