Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT fax +49-711-685-5898
