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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 16:24:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed01.univie.ac.at!news-vie-pub.1012internet.at!newsfeed.wu-wien.ac.at!not-for-mail From: Markus Mottl 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: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 23:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: <9ka33g$b5h$4@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <9ka1e1$b5h$2@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B688D21.810C5706@eton.powernet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: miss.wu-wien.ac.at X-Trace: bird.wu-wien.ac.at 996708272 11441 137.208.107.17 (1 Aug 2001 23:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-admin@wu-wien.ac.at NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 23:24:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (OSF1/V4.0 (alpha)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11007 comp.lang.c:71467 comp.lang.c++:79203 comp.lang.functional:7130 Date: 2001-08-01T23:24:32+00:00 List-Id: In comp.lang.functional Richard Heathfield wrote: > Markus Mottl wrote: >> Any language that attempts to be called serious bootstraps >> itself. Needless to say that the first compiler of a new language wasn't >> written in the language itself, > Just a small nit - there's nothing to stop you writing the first > compiler of a new language using an interpreter for that language. I > agree that you can't write the first *implementation* of a language in > itself, though. (Or at least, if you can, you are probably related to > Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth, Alan Turing, and perhaps Douglas Hofstadter > too.) That's what I meant ("implementation" rather than "compiler"), but I was thinking of languages that do not have interpreters (e.g. C), though in theory interpreters are possible for any language. Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl