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

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 19:07:12 UTC 2007


And I prefer to see it at interface points.  Not deep down in a
language where it's making everything inconvenient.

On 10/25/07, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> wrote:
>
>  Jason Johnson wrote:
>  On 10/25/07, Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:
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>
>  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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