From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-25T11:35:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:11:21 -0600, Tony Belding <zobeid@techie.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> the security issue that really worries me. . .  I have to be able to
>> limit what the interpreter can execute.  I can't have my users running
>
> 	That is going to be the killer... Python no-longer ships with a
> "secure sandbox" module, because there were always ways to work around
> it.

indeed.  sandboxing is not something a language designer should not, imho, be
burdened with, best to leave it to an external process where many application
and language architechs can pool their strengths

   http://s4g.gforge.inria.fr/
   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/dipl/eng.html

regards.

-a
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