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I didn't downvote your comment, but I hold your sentiment in low esteem. We don't stress over this for the same reason we don't stress over strlen-style errors

I didn't downvote your comment, but I hold your sentiment in low esteem. We don't stress over this for the same reason we don't stress over strlen-style errors. They're considered part of the basic education for the language. If someone does do this, they are operating below the expected standard for the language. There is only so much a language and environment can be expected to do for you. Your understanding of trivial concepts like, "Loading code from untrusted sources is dangerous" is not an unreasonable bar to set. It is only an "issue" if you are fundamentally misinformed about writing software in interpreted environments.

abp 14y ago
This.
pjungwir 14y ago
It's bizarre that you can think something is "the expected standard for the language" but also not worth pointing out. How are people supposed to learn it? There are incompetent programmers that no effort can reach, sure, but there are also junior programmers who are just innocent and haven't yet learned all the implications of what they're doing. I think it's important to teach these people, whether re Ruby or C or Clojure or whatever. That people treat such teaching with disdain makes me think they are misled by their defensiveness. It's not an insult of Clojure to say that (as in any language) there is stuff worth warning people about.
- KirinDave 14y ago
  > How are people supposed to learn it? By understanding the halting problem and the implications thereof? This is not Clojure-specific, it's part of any dynamic eval tool. > It's not an insult of Clojure to say that (as in any language) there is stuff worth warning people about. This argument might hold some water if the presentation of the information was not couched in a different way. It is clearly not that. And you are clearly more concerned with being right than teaching people, from the words you are choosing to use.
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abp 14y ago

This.

pjungwir 14y ago

It's bizarre that you can think something is "the expected standard for the language" but also not worth pointing out. How are people supposed to learn it? There are incompetent programmers that no effort can reach, sure, but there are also junior programmers who are just innocent and haven't yet learned all the implications of what they're doing. I think it's important to teach these people, whether re Ruby or C or Clojure or whatever. That people treat such teaching with disdain makes me think they are misled by their defensiveness. It's not an insult of Clojure to say that (as in any language) there is stuff worth warning people about.

KirinDave 14y ago
> How are people supposed to learn it? By understanding the halting problem and the implications thereof? This is not Clojure-specific, it's part of any dynamic eval tool. > It's not an insult of Clojure to say that (as in any language) there is stuff worth warning people about. This argument might hold some water if the presentation of the information was not couched in a different way. It is clearly not that. And you are clearly more concerned with being right than teaching people, from the words you are choosing to use.
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