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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-09 22:17:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.unimelb.edu.au!mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU!njn From: njn@cs.mu.oz.au (Nicholas James NETHERCOTE) 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: 10 Aug 2001 05:16:56 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <9kvqo9$af7$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <9kpo9r$415@augusta.math.psu.edu> <5drpk9.l0e.ln@10.0.0.2> <9krhd2$6po@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kubta$h4p$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cat.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU 997420617 10727 128.250.26.131 (10 Aug 2001 05:16:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.mu.OZ.AU NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Aug 2001 05:16:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11739 comp.lang.c:73326 comp.lang.c++:81468 comp.lang.functional:7456 Date: 2001-08-10T05:16:56+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: >Since in my experience, computer programmers are in most respects similar to >human beings and human beings make mistakes on a regular basis, I prefer to >have the machine (language) do as much checking for me as possible. This is >not dissimilar to having a spell-checker within a word processor. It won't >stop you from saying something stupid, but at least when you do say >something stupid, it will not have the easily detected spelling and >gramatical mistakes that are commonly made. Well said. -- Nick Nethercote njn[AT]cs.mu.oz.au