Sriram Srinivasan wrote:
> I think we'll have to agree to disagree on all these points. I tend to
> be a heck of a lot more trusting of the programmer. I don't like to be
> policed myself, nor do I force it on anyone. There are very practical
> transaction processing monitors that are eminently useful and not
> paranoid about what a programmer could do: Tuxedo, CICS and Encina.
> Sure there are exceptions; allowing an admin to limit the maximum
> number of database connections (not statements) and to throttle
> incoming connections if the server is loaded, implementing checked
> transaction behavior, etc. These are problems that one typically sees
> in practice and have been plugged on a case by case basis. My opinion
> is that there's no need to get paranoid about what a programmer could
> do. It doesn't help anyone and it limits creativity and performance.
> 99% of programmers are neither malicious nor complete idiots; they may
> design something wrong and will learn soon enough not to do it.
Hear, hear. If it were entirely my money, I'd buy your product right
now for this alone, viz. sanity of the implementors. :-)
Cheers,
Laird
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