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: 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 14:40:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!skynet.be!louie!not-for-mail Sender: - From: Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional References: <9ka1jc$mgd@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.17-21mdksecure (i686)) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:55:27 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.78.202.248 X-Trace: 997133999 reader1.news.skynet.be 62251 194.78.202.248 X-Complaints-To: abuse@skynet.be Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11416 comp.lang.c:72567 comp.lang.c++:80460 comp.lang.functional:7366 Date: 2001-08-06T20:55:27+02:00 List-Id: Dan Cross wrote: > Yes, but would the average car driver buy a car without seat belts now? > Assuming the answer is, ``no...'' why would the average programmer choose > to use a programming language with seat-belt like features? The average car driver does not buy a car limited to 20km/hour. Safety measures are one part of the equation. It's obviously always a trade-off between safety and speed (among other things). Balancing the discussion to only one side of the medal (the side that shines for Ada) is unfair. We could just as easily turn the tables and discuss some things where Ada just doesn't cut it. cu bart -- http://www.irule.be/bvh/