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: 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: 2001-08-01 18:23:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail From: Michael Rubenstein 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. Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:22:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <9ka1e1$b5h$2@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> <3B688D21.810C5706@eton.powernet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZ7RUeUAa8xTHvC7huCQRcPYISX3Si4M67GEjMlS7HilSQyjLsM38r830E2A58fvAE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Aug 2001 01:22:14 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11014 comp.lang.c:71487 comp.lang.c++:79223 comp.lang.functional:7138 Date: 2001-08-02T01:22:14+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 00:13:37 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote: >Markus Mottl wrote: >> > >> >> Any language that attempts to be called serious bootstraps >> itself. Needless to say that the first compiler of a new language wasn't >> written in the language itself, > >Just a small nit - there's nothing to stop you writing the first >compiler of a new language using an interpreter for that language. I >agree that you can't write the first *implementation* of a language in >itself, though. (Or at least, if you can, you are probably related to >Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth, Alan Turing, and perhaps Douglas Hofstadter >too.) In fact that's how the first Lisp compiler was written. The interpretter was written first, the compiler was written in Lisp and then used in the interpretter to compile itself. -- Michael M Rubenstein