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Mainframe Security

From: ljknews at mac.com (ljknews)
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:45:18 -0400

At 11:45 PM +0100 11/2/07, Florian Weimer wrote:

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.


Can you provide a pointer to the study showing that ?

Certainly none of the Ada I ship has bounds checking disabled.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen

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