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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2001-08-11 19:57:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional References: <9kpo9r$415@augusta.math.psu.edu> <5drpk9.l0e.ln@10.0.0.2> <9krhd2$6po@augusta.math.psu.edu> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:58:59 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.55.122.179 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 997585073 210.55.122.179 (Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:57:53 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:57:53 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11805 comp.lang.c:73704 comp.lang.c++:81850 comp.lang.functional:7482 Date: 2001-08-12T14:58:59+12:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:ldbsk9.1gl.ln@10.0.0.2... > Dan Cross wrote: > Well, I personally am satisfied with the quality of the tools for C++ > (and the language itself). They are not perfect, but generally they are > good enough. Enough that 99% of the failures of the software > I write happen because of mistakes by me (the programmer). Other tools > wouldn't matter. Sorry? About 100% of the mistakes written are written by the programmer. No escaping that. However, what about the probability of them happening and the tools that would/could catch even some small percentage of that?