(I am not a JScript or VBSCript guru, so I may be wrong in a few assertions below.)

Perl isn't less secure. Perl is more powerful. You cannot access the operating system with JScript or VBScript. You cannot (easily) initiate a download from some other server and execute that code.

Even more importantly, Acme::Bleach doesn't exist in anything but Perl. That alone makes security checking through regex impossible.

My concern is that the increased power of Perl will not come with increased safeguards on the part of the browser manufacturers or the plugin manufacturers or the OS manufacturers. THAT is what I am scared $h!tless about.

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In reply to Re3: What Does Microsoft Think of Perl? by dragonchild
in thread What Does Microsoft Think of Perl? by Gurr

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