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: 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: 2001-08-06 07:23:56 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: 6 Aug 2001 10:23:54 -0400 Organization: Mememememememmeme Message-ID: <9km99q$qt3@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <3b6a453c.1193942215@news.worldonline.nl> <9keejl$fhj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b6e4ab8.1457529830@news.worldonline.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: augusta.math.psu.edu X-Trace: boatanchor.ems.psu.edu 997107836 8755 146.186.132.2 (6 Aug 2001 14:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: security@psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Aug 2001 14:23:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11358 comp.lang.c:72446 comp.lang.c++:80297 comp.lang.functional:7335 Date: 2001-08-06T14:23:56+00:00 List-Id: In article <3b6e4ab8.1457529830@news.worldonline.nl>, Richard Bos wrote: >cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) wrote: >> In article <3b6a453c.1193942215@news.worldonline.nl>, >> Richard Bos wrote: >> >Since the design is part of the programming (or should be!), I can only >> >answer "Mu!". >> >> Huh? ``Design as you go'' is rarely a good strategy; you should always >> have some idea how to start before applying fingers to keyboard. > >Since when does programming start with applying fingers to keyboard? These days, most of the time. :-) But then, that's my point; it's a bad idea. - Dan C.