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I like Tcl for its sandboxing capabilities: "Tcl added sandboxed subinterpreters in a bid to become a safe web scripting language. The plan didn't work out but
by 7373737373 6y ago
I like Tcl for its sandboxing capabilities: "Tcl added sandboxed subinterpreters in a bid to become a safe web scripting language. The plan didn't work out but it is a killer feature for untrusted input."
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23145448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23145448
- VBprogrammer 6y agoIt was a long time ago but TCL was the only time in my career where I had to worry about nonsense like double substitution causing arbitrary code execution or numbers being passed with a 0 prefix being handled as octal. It was a pain in the backside.
- seg_lol 6y agoBut then you switched to Javascript and all those problems melted away.