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: 2001-08-07 12:47:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.unimelb.edu.au!mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU!fjh From: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson) 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: 7 Aug 2001 19:39:05 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <9kpg4p$rhf$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <9ka1jc$mgd@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: murlibobo.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU 997213145 28207 128.250.37.153 (7 Aug 2001 19:39:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.mu.OZ.AU NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Aug 2001 19:39:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11520 comp.lang.c:72737 comp.lang.c++:80741 comp.lang.functional:7386 Date: 2001-08-07T19:39:05+00:00 List-Id: Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be writes: >Safety measures are one part of the equation. It's obviously always >a trade-off between safety and speed (among other things). Balancing the >discussion to only one side of the medal (the side that shines >for Ada) is unfair. We could just as easily turn the tables and >discuss some things where Ada just doesn't cut it. Such as? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.