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From: Leif Roar Moldskred <lrm@huldreheim.provida.no>
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
  service attack.
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In comp.lang.ada Beelsebob <tatd100@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:

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> Now then let me see... oh yes, you can use Ada (not even a buggy
> implementation of it) to cause the Arian 5 rocket to try and turn
> round in mid flight, and disintegrate into many tinny little burrning
> pieces.....

That's right, sir. Unlike with other computer languages, when you
shoot yourself in the foot with Ada, you don't just get a measly
little pin-prick of a buffer-overflow. No sir, when you shoot yourself
in the foot with Ada - you blast it clean off at the knee!

(As an aside, I believe that the program was actually correct
(i.e. behaved according to specifications), but had been misapplied.)


-- 
Leif Roar Moldskred
"Ada - fewer, more _interesting_ bugs."