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Are you reading the same comic? The author doesn't explain why calling the son Robert')DROP TABLE Students;-- would cause the records to disappear. Which
by yen223 14y ago
Are you reading the same comic? The author doesn't explain why calling the son
Robert')DROP TABLE Students;--
would cause the records to disappear. Which is fair enough: it's meant to be humourous, not explanatory.
- mung 14y agoIt doesn't have to explain why or how, one can infer from the comic that inputting unexpected data into a form will cause an unexpected result.
- chii 14y agoto quote babbage: > On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
- cynwoody 14y agoIt's funny as hell. And the last remark in the dialog makes it clear the intended audience is sloppy developers, not non-techies. Although brighter non-techies would probably get it after a little thought.