dragonchild is doing an excellent job, certainly more cogently than I will be able to do. (Thank, you dragonchild).

There is a lot more to security than a language's (say) memory access model or potential race conditions. Many very serious examples of security problems have absolutely nothing to do with software: trusted users doing improper actions which are, nonetheless, well within their security profiles (sysadmins may have legitimate need to get into the bank's account database), careless disposal or loss of hardware with confidential information, users putting their impossible-to-memorize passwords on PostIt™s stuck on their monitors, et al.

Restricting my comments to software: There is no way language selection can prevent something like

&transfer_all_money_from(cat => \$user) if($user eq 'theMice' and &is_
+away('cat'));

[download]

I don't see how E, CaPerl, etc could prevent this.

emc

Netlib

In reply to Re^4: Attack on Perl or Perl's need better PR (again) by swampyankee
in thread Attack on Perl or Perl's need better PR (again) by wazoox

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