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From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:45:18 +0100

My limited exposure to Cobol makes me think it is as unlikely to have
a buffer overflow as PL/I or Ada.

Usually, Ada programmers switch off bounds checking before shipping
code.  I don't know why Ada has such a reputation for robustness.


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