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:eWeek: Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg?
eWeek: Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg?
Dec 8, 2005, 00 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5946 reads)

(Other stories by Larry Seltzer)

"Last week a serious vulnerability was revealed to relatively little attention from the press, or even from security circles. I think it's a real nasty one, especially in as much as it will go widely unpatched.

"The program at issue is the ubiquitous Perl programming language. Perl is a scripting language, which means a lot of things to different people, but I think the main characteristic is that it's interpreted in source form in a sort of virtual machine..."

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... some self-accused "programmer" has b ...   Oh boy ...   
Rainer Weikusat
Dec 8, 2005, 10:52:10
 
On itself Python has similar problems to ...   Drop Perl. Go Python   
Shamar
Dec 8, 2005, 12:00:21
 
> On itself Python has similar problems  ...   Re: Drop Perl. Go Python   
Rainer Weikusat
Dec 8, 2005, 16:36:19
 
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