it isn't the fact that it allows you to interface to the external world.....Perl lets me do that right now by writing directly to any memory address, which then all it needs is a PCI board, or just write to the good old Parallel port addresses and hook them to optoisolators thru a hacked printer cable. ...so why would i need another abstraction layer of software to write bit flips?
.... the real test is can the lang prevent and/or automatically recover from system memory overruns or processor hijacking, and all that good hacking stuff, that you
must design for in the real world..... as opposed to the win32 philosophy ;-)
...as far as that goes, i am quite happy with my experiences with Perl under Linux,
and probably would risk my life that my program would perform well enough to gaurantee my safety..... however, that would preclude running other complex software simultaneously, which is connected to the internet...like web browsers running javascript.. :-)
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