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From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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Date: 8 Aug 2001 10:12:50 -0400
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In article <5drpk9.l0e.ln@10.0.0.2>,  <Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be> wrote:
>Which point?

The point that those desktop components could and should be built to
a higher level of quality than they currently are, perhaps using better
tools.

If all you want to do is perpetuate the status quo, then by all means
continue doing what you're doing.

	- Dan C.