[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[bill]

On 9/9/2023 11:19 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


Nice thought, but the particular problem I was fighting was
inherent to PHP and the programmer can only stop it by using
a better tool.

bill