On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > I know my last employer was very reluctant to know let anyone know we used > perl internally, as he felt if there were security holes found in the > language we'd be open to hackers. > > Not that his paranoia was entirely unjustified (the company would be a bit > of a high profile target at times), but I'm not convinced it was always > necessary.
Would he have been equally paranoid with any other language? Or just open source hippie code? :-) > > -- > And a big "Hiya" goes out to the fun crew from GCHQ. I wonder if they're using Perl. We've never seen any bug reports from them. Nicholas Clark