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: 2001-08-03 12:05:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) 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: 3 Aug 2001 15:05:24 -0400 Organization: Mememememememmeme Message-ID: <9keslk$glc@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <3b6a453c.1193942215@news.worldonline.nl> <9keejl$fhj@augusta.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: augusta.math.psu.edu X-Trace: boatanchor.ems.psu.edu 996865525 24565 146.186.132.2 (3 Aug 2001 19:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: security@psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 2001 19:05:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11251 comp.lang.c:71978 comp.lang.c++:79779 comp.lang.functional:7272 Date: 2001-08-03T19:05:25+00:00 List-Id: In article , Preben Randhol wrote: >If an app uses 10 seconds more to startup or 5% longer to complete a >task, where is the hurt? I am pretty sure that if you also put into >the equation all that time that is spent after a program has crashed >etc.. you will find that you don't loose time on software with better >quality. Yes, exactly. And I would go farther and say that on today's zippy microprocessors, the difference is even less than that. I imagine that the performance of Ada and say C++ is roughly the same. - Dan C.