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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit 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: 2001-08-09 06:20:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ From: Ted Dennison References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B69DB35.4412459E@home.com> <3B6F312F.DA4E178E@home.com> <23lok9.ioi.ln@10.0.0.2> <3B706FDC.E965C526@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 09:20:48 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:20:48 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11681 comp.lang.c:73164 comp.lang.c++:81212 Date: 2001-08-09T13:20:48+00:00 List-Id: In article , Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be says... >As I've said before : what imperfections or design tradeoffs there >might be in C/C++ as a language, that's largely made up with the >extensive platform support it receives. That's stuff which any language that can speak C interfaces (C++, Ada, some Javas, and assureadly others) can use just as easily though. Its hardly an advantage for C alone. There's no way a library (particularly a non-standard one) can be said to fix the error-prone constructs that are in C already (which C++ mostly perpetuated). The best it can do is give you some less error-prone alternatives, which it is up to developers to scrupulously use (or not). You can't build a sturdy structure on a rotten foundation. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com