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From: Ryan <rtarpine@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Thought this was interesting (Bounds Checking!)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:31:09 -0400
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Date: 2002-08-29T14:31:09-04:00
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> I don't see what is important about bounds checking in this case.
> It is only Windows that crashed :-)

Microsoft made two very bad decisions in writing Windows NT.  The more 
obvious was forcing the whole OS to go down when only the console I/O 
code fails.  The less obvious was writing that code in a language other 
than Ada :-)

Ryan