Rob Coops wrote:
Then again PHP above all others is seen as the most likely language to replace JAVA as a cross-platform language.
At the expense of having to admin a bulky huge bloat of a fiend just like JAVA. *And* its lightyears away from having the capabilities of JAVA. I think the ones that "see" that are blind and stupid ;p
Perl and PHP are very much diffrent and very much the same in a fundamental way just like most other languages: - Perl can be just as much a security risk as any other language (safe C and microsoft languages as they are a little bit worse) it all depends on the skill of the user. Just ask the people on this list who of them know what the taint module does and what would be the use when writting a web site in perl for instance. - PHP is as unsafe as the writters of the code make it... Anyone who knows perl can tell you how bad code can be exploited, the same goes for PHP So in short I know this is the wrong place to say it but as a person who knows both and who has been writting things in may other languages can say it's all up to the author of the code. I know there is a PHP begginers list
Yes anyone can shoot themselves in the head with any language, PHP just hands the unwary user a machine gun cocked and loaded pointed right at their head and says "don't worry its special binoculars, go a head and take a look in the long small end"
At least with Perl, C, Ruby, Python, etc etc I have to purposefully grab the gun, put ammo in it and point it at myself at which point it becomes my fault not the langauage's. PHP has so many hidden faults you can introduce injection attacks and even rootkit uploadablity and network attack vulnerabilty simply by using certain functions that are totally unrelated to the atatck under certain configurations.
Lookup the archive for this thread, I have a nice example of exactly what I'm referring to. Or if you've ever had to admin a webserver you know what I mean also most likely, unless there are one visit per day and its you checking for visitors.
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