Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM

["robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com>]

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> "robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > You seem to be unaware that PL/I has evolved since
> > it was "first designed".
> >
> It would have to have evolved quite a lot to be anywhere
> close to the capabilities or reliability of a language such as Ada.
>
> Perhaps you can provide a reference to some resources that
> would help us enlighten ourselves.

Here's another example (I notice that you did not respond
to the previous example):

PL/I can compile and execute the following source.  Can Ada do the same for
PL/I?

Mixed: procedure options (main);
    ...
ADA(
StringReverse (S: Text) return Text is
begin
    if Length(S) <= 1
       then return S;
       else return StringReverse(Tail(S)) & Head(S);
end StringReverse;
);
end mixed;

[I have not written here the PL/I code for TAIL and HEAD,
nor the declarations for the variables corresponding
to S and Text.]