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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-13 22:19:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0305010621.55e99deb@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305011035.13133e8d@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305011727.5eae0222@posting.google.com> <17cd177c.0305072114.24f04783@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090612.261d5a5c@posting.google.com> <82347202.0305091052.d8161a4@posting.google.com> <1mrtbv48hufvmmk69gd60v7fm4csoks0nh@4ax.com> <3EC1B704.1070207@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1052889596 24232 129.241.83.78 (14 May 2003 05:19:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:19:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63737 comp.object:63344 comp.lang.ada:37311 misc.misc:14149 Date: 2003-05-14T05:19:56+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > There are three errors here. The first is a category error. The > description of Ada.Text_IO.Get was just to show that in Ada, you can > never have a buffer overflow error. (Unless of course you go very far > out of your way to specifically program one. It can be done, but many > Ada programmer don't know how, and most Ada programmers would consider > going out of your way to construct an Ada program that had a potential > buffer overflow not as a challenge, but as a kind of pornography. Excellent quote :-) -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/