[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/9/2023 11:45 AM, bill wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> :-)
> 
> 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.

You are aware that PHP is Turing complete?

Arne