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 X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-04 01:00:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) 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: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 08:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b6a453c.1193942215@news.worldonline.nl> <9keejl$fhj@augusta.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 996912023 5047 129.241.83.82 (4 Aug 2001 08:00:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 08:00:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11285 comp.lang.c:72085 comp.lang.c++:79882 comp.lang.functional:7292 Date: 2001-08-04T08:00:23+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:37:30 -0700, Mark Wilden wrote: > Just a comment on the "5% longer" figure. That might not seem like much, but > if you're talking about a process that takes three days to complete, saving > 5% means you get your results over three hours sooner. In other words, a > small percentage of a large amount can be significant. 5% was just an arbitrary figure, probably much too high. But what about you do 5 of these 3 days calculations and then realise that there is a trivial error (one that using a different language would have prevented) in your code which makes the resulted calculation wrong? If I remember correctly this happened in one of the clients of distributed.net. How are you going to get back these 360 hours? I'll like a parachute to open always rather than that it opens 1ms faster, but at occasions fail to work althoghter. Preben -- �Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language.� - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/