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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: What's so great about Forth, anyway? |
| Date | 2017-03-29 11:53 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2017Mar29.135353@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
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Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> writes:
>he's talking about a language that can load
>and compile arbitrary code without that code behaving maliciously. Or
>only worrying as much as people do about code that runs in a browser:
>it might record and report on your every exhalation while you're
>viewing the webpage its running in, but it won't decrypt and read your
>diary. So pretty far off the reservation to begin with. At best
>such a language could be defined as something easily implemented in
>Forth, after one seals off much of the language.
I think that's pretty hard. Java tried and failed. JavaScript also
fails, but is so popular that people don't want to admit it. Running
the application in an appropriately restricted OS-level virtual
machine looks more promising, but also has its pitfalls.
- anton
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Re: What's so great about Forth, anyway? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 11:54 -0700
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