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According to John C . Randolph:
> > I will rule out PERL on grounds of total illegibility and insecurity. It is
> > possible to write decent programs in Perl. I know both of the people who
> > actually do it. Forget it.
>
> Who's the other one?

He's a solipsist. He's one; the rest of the world is the other. :-)

> I thought we were talking about the implementation language for
> per-version. Are we actually discussing its scripting language?

Perl makes a secure implementation language due to its tainting feature. It also makes a secure remote execution language due to its "Safe" and "opcode" modules.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K

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