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Re: Perl essential ?



Previously Ilya Martynov wrote:
> 3) shell scripting ofthen very unsecure IMHO because of various shell
>    expansion feauteres. I admin that I can be wrong here because I'm
>    not expert in shell scripting (I just prefer Perl for anything more
>    complex than three lines script :) )

It's just as easy to write insecure perl scripts as it is to write
insecure shell scripts. Tainting only protects you from a couple of
mistakes, but not all.

Secure programming is not a language feature, it is something a
programmer must be aware of for every line of code he writes, and
even more importantly when making the initial design.

Wichert.

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