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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 23:44:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!news.itmel.bhp.com.au!not-for-mail From: look@sig.please.because.this.is.invalid (Chris Kuan) 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. Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 2 Aug 2001 06:44:46 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <90F1AA959looksigplease@134.18.241.18> References: <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <9ka1e1$b5h$2@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B688D21.810C5706@eton.powernet.co.uk> <9kaplt$akc$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc6713.itwol.bhp.com.au X-Trace: gossamer.itmel.bhp.com.au 996734686 10067 134.18.241.18 (2 Aug 2001 06:44:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itmel.bhp.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Aug 2001 06:44:46 GMT User-Agent: Xnews/2.09.03 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11037 comp.lang.c:71534 comp.lang.c++:79260 comp.lang.functional:7152 Date: 2001-08-02T06:44:46+00:00 List-Id: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson) wrote in comp.lang.c++: >I wouldn't be surprised if Bjarne Stroustrup did a similar thing with >Cfront, writing it in the intersection of C and "C with classes". D&E 3.3 ("Cfront") states that "Cfront was originally written in C with Classes and soon transcribed into C84 so that the very first working C++ compiler was entirely done in C++". -- Chris Kuan, CSC (Australia) Concatenate for email: mr gazpacho @ hotmail . com "Law is a repository for the aimlessly clever" - Tim Freedman