29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
5:18 p.m.
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> writes:
I said exploits, not ways to get outside your proper address space and crash the OS. Any sufficiently powerful language presents an opportunity to do bad things to an ill prepared OS, but the answer isn't to make the language less powerful.
The Burroughs B6700 had trusted compilers.
Perhaps if we banned C and assembly, and made everyone use perl, we'd be safe. :)
The Perl parser itself (written in C ;) seems to have some issues (in __DIE__ handlers). 8-( -- Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT fax +49-711-685-5898