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: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-06 12:19:16 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: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:19:16 +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> <3c30da40.0108060848.796d9bd9@posting.google.com> 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 997125556 7764 129.241.83.82 (6 Aug 2001 19:19:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:19:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11407 comp.lang.c:72542 comp.lang.c++:80427 comp.lang.functional:7359 Date: 2001-08-06T19:19:16+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:19:12 -0700, Mark Wilden wrote: > Permit me to decide the point I'm trying to make. :) > > Just to be crystal clear, I was saying nothing about speed vs. safety, nor > Ada vs. C++. I was just talking about 5%. In most applications, 5% is > meaningless. But in _some_ applications, it's important. OK so then you can if you like turn off the checks to gain the speed you want, if you know that your code is correct and that you won't waste hours of calculations due to an error. -- �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/