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From: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
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
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:19:22 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.functional Bruce G. Stewart <bruce.g.stewart@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Perhaps this is true of any language that aspires to be suitable for
> writing compilers. It would be silly to restrict onself to writing,
> say, an SQL statement compiler as an SQL statement.

I think the context of the thread makes it clear that we are considering
"universal" programming languages only, not in the sense of computational
power but practical applicability.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

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Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl