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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-06 15:52:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.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 22:52:25 +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> <6ejmk9.f11.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal> <87zo9dug9p.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.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 997138345 13185 129.241.83.82 (6 Aug 2001 22:52:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:52:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11424 comp.lang.c:72579 comp.lang.c++:80477 comp.lang.functional:7369 Date: 2001-08-06T22:52:25+00:00 List-Id: On 06 Aug 2001 15:42:26 -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) writes: > >> -- >> �Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language >> not an app programming language.� - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) > > That's a pretty hostile attitude to take in comp.lang.c. Are you > trolling? No I'm not trolling. I only quote a C user. :-) But I can put a different signature if you feel offended. Preben -- �If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark immediately?�