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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 04:01:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) 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. Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0108010949.5abab7fe@posting.google.com> <%CX97.14134$ar1.47393@www.newsranger.com> <9k9if8$rn3$1@elf.eng.bsdi.com> <9k9nci$1cq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <$Id63yuv4BjB@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3b6903f5.1111682555@news.worldonline.nl> Organization: LJK Software Date: 2 Aug 2001 07:01:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996750073 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:01:13 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:01:13 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11069 comp.lang.c:71602 comp.lang.c++:79311 comp.lang.functional:7174 Date: 2001-08-02T07:01:11-05:00 List-Id: In article <3b6903f5.1111682555@news.worldonline.nl>, info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) writes: > Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote: > >> A minor point is that I cannot figure out whether Marin or Chris is the >> one more likely to write bug-free code. > > I have no idea how good Marin is, but I'd trust Chris's code over, well, > almost anyone's. Certainly including my own. The reason? I've seen some > of Chris's code in the past, and it is generally as bug-free as any code > I've seen in any language. Try to extrapolate, then, to the situation where you don't know the individual. Very few people are able to restrict their use of computer software to that where they have personal knowledge of the individual.