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-Thread: 103376,5bc4be576204aa20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <43783810.6080808@obry.net> <0f4ef.1413$s14.1261@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <5Fpif.25167$Zv5.13092@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net> <6ktjf.8048$ea6.3571@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.109.140.17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr12.news.prodigy.com 1133420743 ST000 69.109.140.17 (Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:05:43 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:05:43 EST Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: O@Y[R^[GZRRER_H]]RKB_UDAZZ\DPCPDLXUNNHXIJYWZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:05:43 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6705 Date: 2005-12-01T07:05:43+00:00 List-Id: "robin" wrote in message news:6ktjf.8048$ea6.3571@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > What you say is not true; PL/I is perfectly capable, reliable, > and robust for all kinds of projects, including real-time projects, > just as Ada is. > As well, PL/I interfaces to other languages. > Sorry Robin but PL/I is simply not up to the level of reliability and capability as you might think it is. It was a nice attempt when it was first designed, but it has been surpassed by new languages. The exception handling model is inadequate, simple things such as getting out of a loop require dangerous statements, and lots of other things that simply fall short of what one would expect of a more robust language design. Richard Riehle