Security Concerns

[Darren New]

Jon Ribbens wrote:
> IMHO Python is considerably *more* secure than Perl, because it is so much
> simpler than Perl. 

Actually, I think Tcl has the nicest solution I've seen of all of these. I'd
have to do some serious thinking about Python to figure out how to restrict
someone to only doing what I wanted them to do.  I think part of it is the
fact that Tcl allows for more than one interpreter (i.e., every internal
function gets a pointer to the interpreter as the first arg, and you can
have multiple interpreters in the same process). Makes it pretty easy to axe
out the commands you don't want to leave access to.

Does Python allow multiple interpreters in the same process? It seems with
the "global interpreter lock" that it's not really designed for that.

-- 
Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA (PST).  Cryptokeys on demand.
The tragedy of the commons applies to monitizing eyeballs, too.