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"White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks"

Started byLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
First post2024-03-02 17:13 -0600
Last post2024-03-12 16:00 -0300
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  "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-03-02 17:13 -0600
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 00:05 +0000
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 13:42 -0800
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" John McCue <jmccue@neutron.jmcunx.com> - 2024-03-03 02:10 +0000
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-03 02:23 +0000
        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-03 11:11 -0800
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 03:30 +0000
        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-03 08:54 +0000
          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 20:11 +0000
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 13:49 -0800
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-03 22:11 +0000
              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 23:27 +0000
                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-07 06:46 +0000
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-03 08:52 +0000
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-03 11:10 +0200
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-03 12:01 +0100
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-03-03 16:03 +0100
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-03 18:18 +0000
        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-03 21:23 +0100
          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 14:01 -0800
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-04 09:44 +0100
              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 11:38 +0000
                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 12:46 -0800
              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 12:36 -0800
                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 12:41 -0800
                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-05 10:01 +0100
                  Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-05 12:51 -0800
                    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-06 11:43 +0100
                      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-06 14:18 -0800
                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-08 13:23 -0800
                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-09 13:25 +0100
                            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-09 14:16 -0800
                              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-09 14:18 -0800
          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 23:31 +0000
          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-03-04 17:05 +0100
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-04 18:24 +0100
              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-03-05 02:46 +0100
                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-05 11:23 +0100
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 20:10 +0000
        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 14:06 -0800
          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-03 23:29 +0000
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 15:53 -0800
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-03-04 01:00 +0000
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 11:44 +0000
              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-04 21:07 +0000
                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-05 00:59 +0200
                  Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-05 01:54 +0000
                    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 22:18 -0800
                      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-05 07:06 +0000
                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 23:10 -0800
                    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-05 11:11 +0200
                      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-05 22:58 +0000
                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-06 14:02 +0200
                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-03-06 12:28 +0000
                            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-07 00:00 +0200
                              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-07 11:35 +0100
                                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-07 13:44 +0200
                                  Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-07 16:36 +0100
                                    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-07 17:18 +0000
                                    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2024-03-08 14:41 +0200
                                      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-08 15:07 +0100
                                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-03-08 15:15 +0000
                                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-08 17:55 +0100
                                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-03-08 10:08 -0800
                                      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-29 00:05 +0000
                                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-04-28 17:14 -0700
                                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-29 01:58 +0000
                                            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-04-28 19:01 -0700
                                              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-04-29 04:28 +0000
                                                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-04-29 13:40 -0700
                                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" paavo512 <paavo@osa.pri.ee> - 2024-04-29 12:45 +0300
                                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-04-29 13:42 -0700
                                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-04-30 16:46 +0000
                                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-07 16:35 +0000
                                  Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-08 08:25 +0100
                                    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-08 12:57 +0200
                                      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-08 15:32 +0100
                                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-08 16:57 +0200
                                        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-29 00:02 +0000
                                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" aph@littlepinkcloud.invalid - 2024-04-29 08:55 +0000
                            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 01:45 +0000
                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" aph@littlepinkcloud.invalid - 2024-03-06 14:30 +0000
                            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 01:46 +0000
                              Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-06 18:00 -0800
                                Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-07 02:37 +0000
                                  Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-06 20:36 -0800
                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 01:44 +0000
                          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-03-14 15:39 -0700
          Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-03-04 00:44 +0000
            Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-04 12:57 -0800
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 13:48 -0800
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-03 15:31 +0000
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-03-05 00:09 -0600
        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-05 07:07 +0000
        Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-05 14:56 +0000
    Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-03 22:14 +0000
      Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-03-03 14:15 -0800
      [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-03-04 16:39 +0000
        Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-04 17:21 +0000
        Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-07 06:48 +0000
          Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-06 23:01 -0800
            Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-07 08:15 +0000
              Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-07 08:23 +0000
                Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-07 10:20 +0000
                  Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 06:23 +0000
                Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 06:21 +0000
              Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-07 14:34 +0000
              Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-07 07:58 -0800
                Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-03-07 18:09 +0000
              Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-03-07 14:39 -0500
          Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-03-07 11:23 +0000
            Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 06:27 +0000
              Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-08 23:27 -0800
                Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.  Was: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 12:21 +0000
                  Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-03-09 15:02 +0000
                    Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 23:11 +0000
                      Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-03-21 14:47 +0300
              Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-03-09 10:40 +0000
                Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-09 11:56 +0000
                  Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-03-10 14:03 +0000
                    Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-10 19:07 +0000
                Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 12:25 +0000
                  Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-09 13:11 +0000
                    Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-09 23:13 +0000
                    Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-03-10 00:13 +0000
                      Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-10 10:17 +0200
                        Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-10 13:35 +0000
                        Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig. Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-10 17:15 +0000
                avoiding strdup() (was: Re: [OT] UTF-8 sig.) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-03-09 13:19 +0000
                  Re: avoiding strdup() Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-03-09 15:25 +0000
                  Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-09 16:37 -0800
                    Re: avoiding strdup() Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-10 10:11 +0200
                      Re: avoiding strdup() Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-10 13:38 +0000
                      Re: avoiding strdup() Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-10 17:12 +0000
                        Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-10 18:47 +0000
                          Re: avoiding strdup() Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-10 19:20 +0000
                          Re: avoiding strdup() Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 16:23 +0000
                            Re: avoiding strdup() Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-11 18:50 +0200
                              Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-11 17:05 +0000
                                Re: avoiding strdup() Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-11 19:35 +0200
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-11 18:06 +0000
                                    Re: avoiding strdup() Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-03-11 20:29 +0200
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 19:57 +0000
                              Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 10:13 -0700
                                Re: avoiding strdup() Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-11 17:58 +0000
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 11:28 -0700
                                Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-11 17:58 +0000
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 11:30 -0700
                                Re: avoiding strdup() Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 19:45 +0000
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 13:11 -0700
                            Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-11 17:00 +0000
                              Re: avoiding strdup() Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-11 17:52 +0000
                                Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-11 18:10 +0000
                                Re: avoiding strdup() Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-11 19:11 +0000
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 12:34 -0700
                              Re: avoiding strdup() Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-12 01:12 +0000
                                Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-11 18:20 -0700
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-12 15:40 +0000
                                    Re: avoiding strdup() Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-03-12 15:31 -0700
                                      Re: avoiding strdup() Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-13 09:50 +0000
                                  Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-12 15:55 +0000
                                    Re: avoiding strdup() Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-03-12 22:44 +0000
                                      Re: avoiding strdup() scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-03-12 23:50 +0000
                                        Re: avoiding strdup() James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-03-13 03:46 -0400
                                          Re: avoiding strdup() David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-03-13 16:08 +0100
                          Re: avoiding strdup() Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-29 00:53 +0000
                            Re: avoiding strdup() i@fuzy.me - 2024-04-29 22:38 +0800
                              Re: avoiding strdup() steve <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2024-04-30 23:36 -0400
                  Re: avoiding strdup() Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-03-10 10:02 +0000
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#383416

FromMichael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Date2024-03-06 16:18 +0200
Message-ID<20240306161842.00001400@yahoo.com>
In reply to#383415
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:50:16 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

> On 06/03/2024 13:31, David Brown wrote:
> > On 05/03/2024 23:34, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:  
> >> On 3/5/2024 2:11 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:  
> >>> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
> >>> [...]  
> >>>> ADA is bullet proof... Until its not... ;^)  
> >>>
> >>> The language is called Ada, not ADA.  
> >>
> >> I wonder how many people got confused?
> >>  
> > 
> > Apparently you and Malcolm got confused.
> > 
> > Others who mentioned the language know it is called "Ada".  I not
> > only corrected you, but gave an explanation of it, in the hope that
> > with that clarity, you'd learn.
> >   
> 
> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
> it uses both Ada and ADA:
> 
> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
> 
> (The example program also includes 'Ada' as some package name. Since
> it is case-insensitive, 'ADA' would also work.)
> 

Your link is to "simple Wikipedia". I don't know what it is
exactly, but it does not appear as authoritative as real Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

> Here's also a paper that uses 'ADA' (I assume it is the same
> language):
> 
> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0166361582900136
> 

The article published 1982. The language became official in 1983.
Possibly, in 1982 there still was a confusion w.r.t. its name.

> Personally I'm not bothered whether anyone uses Ada or ADA. Is 'C' 
> written in all-caps or only capitalised? You can't tell!
> 

If only ADA, written in upper case, was not widely used for something
else...


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#383418

Frombart <bc@freeuk.com>
Date2024-03-06 14:38 +0000
Message-ID<us9v51$fbe7$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383416
On 06/03/2024 14:18, Michael S wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:50:16 +0000
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

>> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
>> it uses both Ada and ADA:
>>
>> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
>>
>> (The example program also includes 'Ada' as some package name. Since
>> it is case-insensitive, 'ADA' would also work.)
>>
> 
> Your link is to "simple Wikipedia". I don't know what it is
> exactly, but it does not appear as authoritative as real Wikipedia
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
> 
>> Here's also a paper that uses 'ADA' (I assume it is the same
>> language):
>>
>> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0166361582900136
>>
> 
> The article published 1982. The language became official in 1983.
> Possibly, in 1982 there still was a confusion w.r.t. its name.

It would have been know it was named after a person. (I think Lovelace 
would have been better though.)

>> Personally I'm not bothered whether anyone uses Ada or ADA. Is 'C'
>> written in all-caps or only capitalised? You can't tell!
>>
> 
> If only ADA, written in upper case, was not widely used for something
> else...

I don't know what that is without looking it up. In a programming 
newsgroup I expect ADA to be the language.

BTW it's a good thing that C, written in upper case, can never be 
confused with anything else...

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#383421

Frombart <bc@freeuk.com>
Date2024-03-06 19:46 +0000
Message-ID<usah79$jads$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383418
On 06/03/2024 14:38, bart wrote:
> On 06/03/2024 14:18, Michael S wrote:

>> If only ADA, written in upper case, was not widely used for something
>> else...
> 
> I don't know what that is without looking it up. In a programming 
> newsgroup I expect ADA to be the language.

Here's an interesting pic:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/AdaLovelaceplaque.JPG

Notice the upper-case name.

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#383422

Fromscott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Date2024-03-06 19:50 +0000
Message-ID<YN3GN.38897$hN14.19245@fx17.iad>
In reply to#383421
bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>On 06/03/2024 14:38, bart wrote:
>> On 06/03/2024 14:18, Michael S wrote:
>
>>> If only ADA, written in upper case, was not widely used for something
>>> else...
>> 
>> I don't know what that is without looking it up. In a programming 
>> newsgroup I expect ADA to be the language.
>
>Here's an interesting pic:
>
>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/AdaLovelaceplaque.JPG
>
>Notice the upper-case name.

Given that the entire name is in all uppercase, and it's not referring
to the computer language, what is your point, if any?

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#383420

FromJames Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Date2024-03-06 14:14 -0500
Message-ID<usafb2$irvm$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383416
On 3/6/24 09:18, Michael S wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:50:16 +0000
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
...
>> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
>> it uses both Ada and ADA:
>>
>> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
>>
>> (The example program also includes 'Ada' as some package name. Since
>> it is case-insensitive, 'ADA' would also work.)
>>
>
> Your link is to "simple Wikipedia". I don't know what it is
> exactly, but it does not appear as authoritative as real Wikipedia

Notice that in your following link, "en" appears at the beginning to
indicate the use of English. "simple" at the beginning of the above link
serves the same purpose. "Simple English" is it's own language, closely
related to standard English. Read the corresponding Wikipedia article
for more details.

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#383423

FromKaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com>
Date2024-03-06 19:50 +0000
Message-ID<20240306114939.761@kylheku.com>
In reply to#383420
On 2024-03-06, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On 3/6/24 09:18, Michael S wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:50:16 +0000
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> ...
>>> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
>>> it uses both Ada and ADA:
>>>
>>> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
>>>
>>> (The example program also includes 'Ada' as some package name. Since
>>> it is case-insensitive, 'ADA' would also work.)
>>>
>>
>> Your link is to "simple Wikipedia". I don't know what it is
>> exactly, but it does not appear as authoritative as real Wikipedia
>
> Notice that in your following link, "en" appears at the beginning to
> indicate the use of English. "simple" at the beginning of the above link
> serves the same purpose. "Simple English" is it's own language, closely
> related to standard English.

Where is Simple English spoken? Is there some geographic area where
native speakers concentrate?

-- 
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#383424

FromDavid Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Date2024-03-06 21:13 +0100
Message-ID<usaipk$jjq3$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383423
On 06/03/2024 20:50, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2024-03-06, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> On 3/6/24 09:18, Michael S wrote:
>>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:50:16 +0000
>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>>> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
>>>> it uses both Ada and ADA:
>>>>
>>>> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
>>>>
>>>> (The example program also includes 'Ada' as some package name. Since
>>>> it is case-insensitive, 'ADA' would also work.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Your link is to "simple Wikipedia". I don't know what it is
>>> exactly, but it does not appear as authoritative as real Wikipedia
>>
>> Notice that in your following link, "en" appears at the beginning to
>> indicate the use of English. "simple" at the beginning of the above link
>> serves the same purpose. "Simple English" is it's own language, closely
>> related to standard English.
> 
> Where is Simple English spoken? Is there some geographic area where
> native speakers concentrate?
> 

It is meant to be simpler text, written in simpler language.  The target 
audience will include younger people, people with dyslexia or other 
reading difficulties, learners of English, people with lower levels of 
education, people with limited intelligence or learning impediments, or 
simply people whose eyes glaze over when faced with long texts on the 
main Wikipedia pages.

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#383480

FromRoss Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-08 21:36 -0800
Message-ID<ha2dnVzbM9-naHb4nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#383424
On 03/06/2024 12:13 PM, David Brown wrote:
> On 06/03/2024 20:50, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> On 2024-03-06, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>> On 3/6/24 09:18, Michael S wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 13:50:16 +0000
>>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
>>>>> it uses both Ada and ADA:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
>>>>>
>>>>> (The example program also includes 'Ada' as some package name. Since
>>>>> it is case-insensitive, 'ADA' would also work.)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your link is to "simple Wikipedia". I don't know what it is
>>>> exactly, but it does not appear as authoritative as real Wikipedia
>>>
>>> Notice that in your following link, "en" appears at the beginning to
>>> indicate the use of English. "simple" at the beginning of the above link
>>> serves the same purpose. "Simple English" is it's own language, closely
>>> related to standard English.
>>
>> Where is Simple English spoken? Is there some geographic area where
>> native speakers concentrate?
>>
>
> It is meant to be simpler text, written in simpler language.  The target
> audience will include younger people, people with dyslexia or other
> reading difficulties, learners of English, people with lower levels of
> education, people with limited intelligence or learning impediments, or
> simply people whose eyes glaze over when faced with long texts on the
> main Wikipedia pages.
>
>

Yet, why?

There's "Simplified Technical English", which is a same
sort of idea, with the idea that manuals and instructions
be clear and unambiguous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English

Heh, it's like in the old days, when people would get
manuals, and be amused as it were by the expression.


What I'd like to know about is who keeps dialing
the "harmonization" efforts, which really must
give grouse to the "harmonisation" spellers,
when good old-fashioned words "spelt" their own way,
which of course is archaic "spelled".

It reminds me of "Math Blaster" and "Typing Games",
vis-a-vis, "the spelling bee", and for that matter,
of course, weekly spelling quizzes all through
elementary school.

I'm so old the only games we had were how to
compute and how to spell.

And Tooth Invaders.  Just kidding I had 50+ floppies
for my Commodore64.  Like GI Joe and Beachhead II.

But we didn't get promoted in school if we
didn't pass our spelling tests.

(We couldn't even have dangling prepositions
or sentence fragments like the above.)

We had a class in school we couldn't even pass
until we could type thirty words a minute.


The Simplified Technical English though is a good idea,
it's used in technical manuals and instructions, widely.


Really, whever harmonization dials away a word,
I'm like, hey, I'm using that word.


There's something to be said for a, "source parser",
the idea being a, multi-pass parser of sorts, with
any number of, forms, so that it results, parsing
languages sort of opportunistically, and results,
sort of lifting, sections, of source, into regions
of syntax, so that as syntaxes get all commingled,
that all the syntax and grammar definitions get piled
together, where it sort of results then for comments
and quoting, and, usual ideas of brackets, and comma,
for joiners and separators and groupers and splitters,
observing mostly usually the parenthetical and indentation,
for all sorts of languages, into, a pretty common sort of
form.

So, what is there, "Simplified Compilation Source",
basically reflecting, "if it's source somehow it
parses, if being ambiguous among languages then
in editions of each or according to the source
locale", these kinds of things....

For a long time I've been thinking about "modular
and composable parsers", with mostly the usual
goal of relating productions in grammar to source
locations, that one figures it would be a most usual
sort of study, to result, all the proliferation of
little languages, get all parsed, then for the great
facility of "term re-write rules" and "term-graph
re-write rules", or "re-write systems", or for
extracting signatures, identifiers, and logic,
for any kind of language.

I think everybody reading this has a most usual
sort of exposure to the theory of parsing as after
Backus-Naur format, vis-a-vis syntax diagrams or
railroad diagrams, and Chomsky hierarchy, and lexers
and parsers and the interpreted and all these kinds
of things, but I don't know a sort of wide-open
framework that parses any kinds of sources and
happens to also re-write itself to any sort of target,
parsing any source language in any source language.

Did I miss the memo?

What I got into was defining languages in terms
of comments and quoting, and, brackets and commas,
and, space and line, in terms of, sequence and alternation,
for basically that all the source is loaded or mapped into
memory, then instead of an abstract syntax tree or sorts,
results an abstract syntax sequence of sorts, those "lifted"
over the source text for its location, then that any sort
of lexicalizing and syntax and grammar, all get put together
as modules and any one just enumerates or makes equivalent
whatever kind of source it is, then according to the
language, results usual sorts constructs and productions,
for functional and procedural languages, and data,
and, you know, language.

Tesniere, Tesniere is the great complement to Chomsky,
where after Chomsky is like, "this finite state machine
builds models of productions in minimal resources", to,
something like, "Simplified Compilation Source", parser,
"this algorithm works in fixed or linear resources in
up to factorial time and parses anything, and unparsed
sections are their source text, and iterating the data
structure or any segment iterates the source under it
that it's lifted over".


See, look at that, "lifted over", I would get a bad
mark for that.  Of course that's since been relaxed,
figuring it's natural to dangle and OK to continue.
And so on.


So anyways as long as we're talking about all the usual
languages, uh, is that all "Common Source Language"?

CS language?

So, for something like, "Common Compilation Components",
figuring all sorts usual functional and procedural
productions sort of have a usual form and thusly
can be a great fabric of re-write rules, or targetting,
basically is for making common-enough productions and
the algorithm be multi-pass as necessary, to result
a usual sort of workbench for languages of the source.




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#383531

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2024-03-12 00:07 +0000
Message-ID<uso6br$3t3jn$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383480
On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 21:36:14 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:

> What I'd like to know about is who keeps dialing the "harmonization"
> efforts, which really must give grouse to the "harmonisation"
> spellers ...

Some words came from French and had “-ize”, others did not and had “-ise”. 
Some folks in Britain decided to change the former to the latter.

“Televise”, “merchandise”, “advertise” -- never any “-ize” form.

“Synchronize”, “harmonize”, “apologize” -- “-ize” originally.

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#383538

FromRoss Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-11 20:05 -0700
Message-ID<SD6dnWlgV-b2W3L4nZ2dnZfqnPhi4p2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#383531
On 03/11/2024 05:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 21:36:14 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>
>> What I'd like to know about is who keeps dialing the "harmonization"
>> efforts, which really must give grouse to the "harmonisation"
>> spellers ...
>
> Some words came from French and had “-ize”, others did not and had “-ise”.
> Some folks in Britain decided to change the former to the latter.
>
> “Televise”, “merchandise”, “advertise” -- never any “-ize” form.
>
> “Synchronize”, “harmonize”, “apologize” -- “-ize” originally.
>



Hey thanks that's something I hadn't thought,
that the harmonization was coming from this
side of the pond besides vice-versa, with regards
to that "harmonization" is an effort in controlled
languages in terms of natural languages which
are organic though of course subject their extended
memory the written corpi, which I write corpi, not corpora.

It's like when the dictionary adds new words,
the old words are still words, in, the "Wortbuch",
an abstract dictionary of all the words, that I read
about in Curme.  (I'm a fan of Tesniere and Curme.)

About parsing and re-writing systems, I'm really wondering
a lot about, compilation units, lines, spacing and indentation,
blocks, comments, quoting, punctuation, identifiers,
brackets, commas, and stops, how to write grammars
for all sorts usual source language in those, and result,
a novel sort of linear data structure above those,
in whatever languages so recognized in those,
and any sections it doesn't as the source text.


I looked around a bit and after re-writing on the Wiki
and "multi-pass parser" there are some sorts ideas,
usually in terms of fungible intermediate languages
for targeting those to whatever languages, here
though mostly to deal with a gamut of existing code,
there are lots of syntax recognizers and highlighters
and this kind of thing, "auto-detect" in the static
analysis toolkit, the languages, then as with regards to
that a given compilation unit is only gonna be one or
a few languages in it, with regards for example to
"code in text" or "text in code", about comments,
sections, blocks, or "language integrated code"
or "convenience code", "sugar modes", you know,
about what the _grammar_ specifications would be,
and the lexical and syntax the specifications, to
arrive at a multi-pass parser, that compiles a whole
bunch of language specs, finds which ones apply
where to the compilation unit, then starts building
them up "lifting" them above the character sequence,
building an "abstract syntax sequence" (yeah I know)
above that, then building a model of the productions
directly above that, that happens to be exactly derived
from the grammar productions, with the same sort
of structure as the grammar productions.

(Order, loop, optional, a superset of eBNF, to support
syntaxes with bracket blocks like C-style and syntaxes
with indent blocks though I'm not into that, the various
inversions of comments and code, the various interpolations
of quoting, brackets and grouping and precedence,
commas and joining and separating, and because SQL
doesn't really comport itself to BNF, these kinds of things.)

Of course it's obligatory that this would be about C/C++
and as with regards to Java which of course is in the
same style, or that its derivative, is for example that
M4/C/C++ code is already to a multi-pass parser, and,
Java at some point added language features which
fundamentally require a multi-pass parser, so it's not
like the entire resources of the mainframe has to fit
a finite-state-machine on the read-head, in fact at
compile-time specifically there's "it's fair to consider
a concatenation of the compilation units as a linear
input in space", then figuring the "liftings" are linear
in that, in space, then that the productions whence
derived are as concise as the productions a minimal
model, thus discardable the intermediate bit, is for
introducing a sort of common model of language
representation, source language, for reference
implementations of the grammars, then to make
the act of ingestion of sources in languages as a
first-class kind of thing, I'm looking for one of those,
and that's about as much I've figured out it is.

It's such a usual idea I must imagine that it's
commonplace, as it's just the very most simple
act of the model of iterating these things and
reading them out.

I probably might not care about it but getting
to where it takes a parser that can parse SQL
for example, or, you know, when there are lots
of source formats but it's just data and definitions,
yeah if you know that there's like a very active
open project in that I'd be real interested in a
sort of "source/object/relational mapping", ...,
as it were, "source/grammatical-production mapping",
what results you identify grammars and pick sources
and it prints out the things.

I'm familiar with the traditional approaches,
and intend to employ them.  I figure this
must be a very traditional approach if
nobody's heard of it.

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#383431

FromJames Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Date2024-03-06 19:27 -0500
Message-ID<usb1lc$mbth$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383423
On 3/6/24 14:50, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2024-03-06, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
...
>> Notice that in your following link, "en" appears at the beginning to
>> indicate the use of English. "simple" at the beginning of the above link
>> serves the same purpose. "Simple English" is it's own language, closely
>> related to standard English.
> 
> Where is Simple English spoken? Is there some geographic area where
> native speakers concentrate?

It's a constructed language, which probably has no native speakers. See
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language>. Wikipedia has
articles in several constructed languages. The two biggest such
languages are Esperanto, with 350,598, and Simple English with 248,540.

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#383437

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2024-03-07 03:06 +0000
Message-ID<usbb01$rnkd$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383431
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 19:27:24 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:

> It's a constructed language, which probably has no native speakers.

Not to be confused with Basic English, which was created, and copyrighted 
by, C K Ogden.

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#383455

FromJames Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Date2024-03-07 14:28 -0500
Message-ID<usd4gb$170b1$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383437
On 3/6/24 22:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 19:27:24 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:
> 
>> It's a constructed language, which probably has no native speakers.
> 
> Not to be confused with Basic English, which was created, and copyrighted 
> by, C K Ogden.

Simple English is the term used by Wikipedia for one of it's
language-specific subsets. One of it's requirements is that the articles
be written in Basic English as much as possible. See
<https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_pages#Basic_English_and_VOA_Special_English>
for details.

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#383464

FromLawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2024-03-07 23:44 +0000
Message-ID<usdjgk$1a50p$7@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383455
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 14:28:11 -0500, James Kuyper wrote:

> One of it's requirements is that the articles be written in Basic
> English as much as possible.

Interesting, because it was Ogden’s protectiveness of his copyright that 
killed off any initial chance of Basic English taking off, back in the 
day.

I guess that’s expired now.

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#383419

FromKeith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-06 07:42 -0800
Message-ID<87h6hjpdsi.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>
In reply to#383415
bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> Whoever wrote this short Wikipedia article on it got confused too as
> it uses both Ada and ADA:
>
> https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

Fixed.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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#383429

From"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-06 14:14 -0800
Message-ID<usapsq$l26r$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383412
On 3/6/2024 5:31 AM, David Brown wrote:
> On 05/03/2024 23:34, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 3/5/2024 2:11 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>> ADA is bullet proof... Until its not... ;^)
>>>
>>> The language is called Ada, not ADA.
>>
>> I wonder how many people got confused?
>>
> 
> Apparently you and Malcolm got confused.
> 
> Others who mentioned the language know it is called "Ada".  I not only 
> corrected you, but gave an explanation of it, in the hope that with that 
> clarity, you'd learn.
> 

ADA = nothing
Ada = the language of Ada

Got it.

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#383399

FromKeith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-05 13:58 -0800
Message-ID<87plw8pci5.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>
In reply to#383395
Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
> On 2024-03-05, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/5/2024 2:27 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2024 08:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:03:54 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/3/2024 11:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you know the life-support system on the
>>>>>> International Space Station was written in Ada? Not something you would
>>>>>> trust C++ code to, let’s face it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the Ada code was written in C or C++ and converted to Ada for
>>>>> delivery.
>>>>
>>>> Was it debugged again? Or was it assumed that the translation was bug-
>>>> free?
>>> 
>>> With Ada, if you can get it to compile, it's ready to ship :-)
>>> 
>> Really? Any logic errors in the program itself?
>
> Ariane 5 rocket incident of 1996: The Ada code didn't catch the hardware
> overflow exception from forcing a 64 bit floating-point value into a 16
> bit integer. The situation was not expected by the code which was
> developed for the Ariane 4, or something like that.

A numeric overflow occurred during the Ariane 5's initial flight -- and
the software *did* catch the overflow.  The same overflow didn't occur
on Ariane 4 because of its different flight profile.  There was a
management decision to reuse the Ariane 4 flight software for Ariane 5
without sufficient review.

The code (which had been thoroughly tested on Ariane 4 and was known not
to overflow) emitted an error message describing the overflow exception.
That error message was then processed as data.  Another problem was that
systems were designed to shut down on any error; as a result, healthy
and necessary equipment was shut down prematurely.

This is from my vague memory, and may not be entirely accurate.

*Of course* logic errors are possible in Ada programs, but in my
experience and that of many other programmers, if you get an Ada program
to compile (and run without raising unhandled exceptions), you're likely
to be much closer to a working program than if you get a C program to
compile.  A typo in a C program is more likely to result in a valid
program with different semantics.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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#383400

From"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-05 14:02 -0800
Message-ID<us84q3$3vqtf$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383399
On 3/5/2024 1:58 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
>> On 2024-03-05, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 3/5/2024 2:27 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>> On 05/03/2024 08:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:03:54 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/3/2024 11:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did you know the life-support system on the
>>>>>>> International Space Station was written in Ada? Not something you would
>>>>>>> trust C++ code to, let’s face it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Most of the Ada code was written in C or C++ and converted to Ada for
>>>>>> delivery.
>>>>>
>>>>> Was it debugged again? Or was it assumed that the translation was bug-
>>>>> free?
>>>>
>>>> With Ada, if you can get it to compile, it's ready to ship :-)
>>>>
>>> Really? Any logic errors in the program itself?
>>
>> Ariane 5 rocket incident of 1996: The Ada code didn't catch the hardware
>> overflow exception from forcing a 64 bit floating-point value into a 16
>> bit integer. The situation was not expected by the code which was
>> developed for the Ariane 4, or something like that.
> 
> A numeric overflow occurred during the Ariane 5's initial flight -- and
> the software *did* catch the overflow.  The same overflow didn't occur
> on Ariane 4 because of its different flight profile.  There was a
> management decision to reuse the Ariane 4 flight software for Ariane 5
> without sufficient review.
> 
> The code (which had been thoroughly tested on Ariane 4 and was known not
> to overflow) emitted an error message describing the overflow exception.
> That error message was then processed as data.  Another problem was that
> systems were designed to shut down on any error; as a result, healthy
> and necessary equipment was shut down prematurely.
> 
> This is from my vague memory, and may not be entirely accurate.
> 
> *Of course* logic errors are possible in Ada programs, but in my
> experience and that of many other programmers, if you get an Ada program
> to compile (and run without raising unhandled exceptions), you're likely
> to be much closer to a working program than if you get a C program to
> compile.  A typo in a C program is more likely to result in a valid
> program with different semantics.
> 

So close you can just feel its a 100% correct and working program?

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#383413

FromDavid Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Date2024-03-06 14:34 +0100
Message-ID<us9rdq$eiqh$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383400
On 05/03/2024 23:02, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 3/5/2024 1:58 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
>>> On 2024-03-05, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 3/5/2024 2:27 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 05/03/2024 08:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:03:54 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/3/2024 11:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Did you know the life-support system on the
>>>>>>>> International Space Station was written in Ada? Not something 
>>>>>>>> you would
>>>>>>>> trust C++ code to, let’s face it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most of the Ada code was written in C or C++ and converted to Ada 
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> delivery.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Was it debugged again? Or was it assumed that the translation was 
>>>>>> bug-
>>>>>> free?
>>>>>
>>>>> With Ada, if you can get it to compile, it's ready to ship :-)
>>>>>
>>>> Really? Any logic errors in the program itself?
>>>
>>> Ariane 5 rocket incident of 1996: The Ada code didn't catch the hardware
>>> overflow exception from forcing a 64 bit floating-point value into a 16
>>> bit integer. The situation was not expected by the code which was
>>> developed for the Ariane 4, or something like that.
>>
>> A numeric overflow occurred during the Ariane 5's initial flight -- and
>> the software *did* catch the overflow.  The same overflow didn't occur
>> on Ariane 4 because of its different flight profile.  There was a
>> management decision to reuse the Ariane 4 flight software for Ariane 5
>> without sufficient review.
>>
>> The code (which had been thoroughly tested on Ariane 4 and was known not
>> to overflow) emitted an error message describing the overflow exception.
>> That error message was then processed as data.  Another problem was that
>> systems were designed to shut down on any error; as a result, healthy
>> and necessary equipment was shut down prematurely.
>>
>> This is from my vague memory, and may not be entirely accurate.

That matches my recollection too.

>>
>> *Of course* logic errors are possible in Ada programs, but in my
>> experience and that of many other programmers, if you get an Ada program
>> to compile (and run without raising unhandled exceptions), you're likely
>> to be much closer to a working program than if you get a C program to
>> compile.  A typo in a C program is more likely to result in a valid
>> program with different semantics.
>>
> 
> So close you can just feel its a 100% correct and working program?

Didn't you notice the smiley in my comment?  It used to be a running 
joke that if you managed to get your Ada code to compile, it was ready 
to ship.  The emphasis is on the word "joke".

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#383428

From"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Date2024-03-06 14:13 -0800
Message-ID<usapr6$l26r$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#383413
On 3/6/2024 5:34 AM, David Brown wrote:
> On 05/03/2024 23:02, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 3/5/2024 1:58 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
>>>> On 2024-03-05, Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 3/5/2024 2:27 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>>> On 05/03/2024 08:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:03:54 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/3/2024 11:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Did you know the life-support system on the
>>>>>>>>> International Space Station was written in Ada? Not something 
>>>>>>>>> you would
>>>>>>>>> trust C++ code to, let’s face it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Most of the Ada code was written in C or C++ and converted to 
>>>>>>>> Ada for
>>>>>>>> delivery.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Was it debugged again? Or was it assumed that the translation was 
>>>>>>> bug-
>>>>>>> free?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With Ada, if you can get it to compile, it's ready to ship :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>> Really? Any logic errors in the program itself?
>>>>
>>>> Ariane 5 rocket incident of 1996: The Ada code didn't catch the 
>>>> hardware
>>>> overflow exception from forcing a 64 bit floating-point value into a 16
>>>> bit integer. The situation was not expected by the code which was
>>>> developed for the Ariane 4, or something like that.
>>>
>>> A numeric overflow occurred during the Ariane 5's initial flight -- and
>>> the software *did* catch the overflow.  The same overflow didn't occur
>>> on Ariane 4 because of its different flight profile.  There was a
>>> management decision to reuse the Ariane 4 flight software for Ariane 5
>>> without sufficient review.
>>>
>>> The code (which had been thoroughly tested on Ariane 4 and was known not
>>> to overflow) emitted an error message describing the overflow exception.
>>> That error message was then processed as data.  Another problem was that
>>> systems were designed to shut down on any error; as a result, healthy
>>> and necessary equipment was shut down prematurely.
>>>
>>> This is from my vague memory, and may not be entirely accurate.
> 
> That matches my recollection too.
> 
>>>
>>> *Of course* logic errors are possible in Ada programs, but in my
>>> experience and that of many other programmers, if you get an Ada program
>>> to compile (and run without raising unhandled exceptions), you're likely
>>> to be much closer to a working program than if you get a C program to
>>> compile.  A typo in a C program is more likely to result in a valid
>>> program with different semantics.
>>>
>>
>> So close you can just feel its a 100% correct and working program?
> 
> Didn't you notice the smiley in my comment?  It used to be a running 
> joke that if you managed to get your Ada code to compile, it was ready 
> to ship.  The emphasis is on the word "joke".
> 

You jest whooshed over my head. Sorry! Humm, well, shit. ;^o

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