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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 08:48:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" 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: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:19 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9kbs3h$p1j$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <%CX97.14134$ar1.47393@www.newsranger.com> <9ka0on$me1@augusta.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 996766641 25651 136.170.200.133 (2 Aug 2001 15:37:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Aug 2001 15:37:21 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11091 comp.lang.c:71665 comp.lang.c++:79351 comp.lang.functional:7189 Date: 2001-08-02T15:37:21+00:00 List-Id: Ummmmm Actually, I've heard tell of automotive computers being programmed in Ada. I won't swear to that because I can't cite specifics - but I can attest to this: Aircraft jet engines have controls programmed in Ada and they work quite well, thank you. (Take a bow, Marin!) BTW: This is more than just military jet engines - large commercial jet engines also have Ada on board. Why? Because if the engine control fails in an aircraft, a pilot (and maybe passengers) are going to have a really bad day. They tend to not have a sense of humor about it either. And they aren't going to buy the excuse that "Any *competent* programmer..." wouldn't have let this happen. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Mike Smith" wrote in message news:tmhe597bt0eb23@corp.supernews.com... > > Define "major". Is the software for automotive engine computers written in > Ada? The embedded world is one of the most "major" categories of software > development, and I'd bet that a lot of that is in fact written in assembly. >