Erlang a primitive language? (was Re: Multy-core CPUs)

Peter William Lount peter at smalltalk.org
Thu Oct 25 18:49:33 UTC 2007


Jason Johnson wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:
>   
>> I agree. Neither Erlang nor Smalltalk were designed with security in mind. Funny thing about
>> security is, that if you do not get it right in the beginning, you cannot "add it later".
>>     
>
> The funny thing about security is that it is on the opposite end of a
> sliding scale, with "user friendly-ness" on the other side.
>
> As far as "you cannot add it later", given that nearly all the secure
> systems I can think off of the top of my head were indeed "added
> later" (e.g. HTTPS), I think this claim is false.
>
>
>   
Hi,

I agree with the point of view that it's better to add it before hand 
when it comes to certain topics like security.

Cheers,

peter

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