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Just because of some novice mistakes, you want to discount the whole post? Thank you for calling attention to the second comment.
by bsaunder 16y ago
Just because of some novice mistakes, you want to discount the whole post?
Thank you for calling attention to the second comment.
- jrockway 16y agoThe mistakes are harmful. When you mess up your string handling in Perl or Python, you end up with double-encoded utf8, or something. When you mess up your string handling in C, other people on the Internet get a shell on your computer. C is serious business. (Incidentally, I've written event-driven programs with libev in both C and Perl. My load is usually so low that doing it all in Perl does not affect the number of requests I can handle, nor does it impact latency. The IO is the bottleneck; the article even says it only uses 2% CPU. Why risk insecurity when you don't know C and it doesn't even improve throughput?)