Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 3/2/2011 7:46 PM, Edward Fish wrote:
>> And in exactly those cases Ada seems to be [empirically] the
>> forerunner/center-stage-star... so, what was your complaint?
>
> The senseless diatribe against relational databases and programming
> languages other than Ada.

Hardly senseless. Relational databases have their uses, but they're wildly 
overused for things that are only weakly related to transactional data. As 
Dmitry said, there are better approaches to persistence.

Similarly, C has its place, but it is wildly overused for things that would 
be better done in a more strongly typed language.

For instance, I *know* that my Ada web server cannot suffer from an SQL 
injection attack, because there is no database used by the server. Nor can 
any URL cause the launching of a shell, because it doesn't have the 
capability to run another program (nor even the code that could do so) --  
everything it can do (including the Ada search engine) is all compiled-in 
Ada code. I'm sure there is some way to break in (probably via the 
underlying Windows, much less like via the Ada code itself), but of course 
it is only necessary to be hard enough to attack to eliminate the value to 
doing so.

Anyway, this argument is probably pointless, since most things are now 
getting programmed in things like PHP, which make C++ look like a strongly 
types fortress. ;-) I presume that in the very near future, it will become 
apparent that attempting to protect anything on such systems is futile and 
that will lead to laws eliminating all liability for privacy breaches (and 
by collerary, all privacy). <Half smile-as I'm half serious>

                             Randy.