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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-12 11:37:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!cyclone2.austin.rr.com!typhoon.austin.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: rajat@austin.rr.com (Rajat Datta) 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. References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <9l6ev5$lv3$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> Reply-To: rajat@austin.rr.com Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (FreeBSD) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:22:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.27.54.104 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.austin.rr.com 997640537 24.27.54.104 (Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:22:17 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:22:17 CDT Organization: Road Runner - Texas Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11821 comp.lang.c:73774 comp.lang.c++:81943 comp.lang.functional:7492 Date: 2001-08-12T18:22:17+00:00 List-Id: On 12 Aug 2001 17:38:45 GMT, Joona I Palaste wrote: >Well, before Dennis Ritchie got his hands on the PDP-7 (PDP-9) >computer over at Bell Labs, there was no C OS either. That didn't stop >him from writing C. Why can't the same be applied to Ada? The question is not why couldn't it; the question is why hasn't it? rajat