Re: Web aps with Perl (6) vs. Longhorn and the Windows API?

Ah yes, and we, the Perl People, don't suffer from Matt's spammable formmail.pl (and close to every other insecure Matt script). Please grep your web daemon's log for a POST on formmail.pl|cgi|...etc

Yep, I know of the NMS Project, but still hordes of insane people easilly install CGI scripts they find somewhere and don't understand. Also, no one is forcing you to use a horrible thing like phpBB. There are PHP alternatives.

Like always: the more something gets used (phpBB, Microsoft Windows), the more malicious attacks will be written for(/against) it...

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Re^2: Web aps with Perl (6) vs. Longhorn and the Windows API? by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 01, 2005 at 20:16 UTC
*Like always: the more something gets used (phpBB, Microsoft Windows), the more malicious attacks will be written for(/against) it...* Well that is sort of the point I was making, as to why Perl is better than PhP ( or linux is better than MSWindows). It allows you to have more variation in your scripts, making it much less susceptible to attack because everyone is using the same "canned code". Nature dosn't make everything "all according to the same recipe"...it introduces tremendous variations so that one attack vector dosn't wipe out everything. Perl's strength is it's "variations". I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]

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Re^2: Web aps with Perl (6) vs. Longhorn and the Windows API?
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 01, 2005 at 20:16 UTC

Like always: the more something gets used (phpBB, Microsoft Windows), the more malicious attacks will be written for(/against) it...

Well that is sort of the point I was making, as to why Perl is better than PhP ( or linux is better than MSWindows). It allows you to have more variation in your scripts, making it much less susceptible to attack because everyone is using the same "canned code". Nature dosn't make everything "all according to the same recipe"...it introduces tremendous variations so that one attack vector dosn't wipe out everything. Perl's strength is it's "variations".

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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