[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/8/2023 6:59 PM, bill wrote:
> On 9/8/2023 2:05 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I _do_ have to use PHP sometimes.
>>
>> It didn't take me long to establish some solid rules, such as strict
>> comparisons at _all_ times, and to use a monitor library I wrote that
>> has the allowed error level turned all the way down so that things
>> which PHP normally allows through generate an error instead.
> 
> I had to support it at the University because we had a professor
> who insisted on teaching it, using it and making his students use
> it.  No matter how many time I showed him the security holes he
> just insisted I was wrong and that it be available  and wide open.

Maybe he had this crazy idea that programming code
read input, does some processing and write output and that
the main responsibility for correctness, security, performance
and whatever belongs with the person writing the code.

:-)

Arne