Grant Edwards wrote: > > It is precisely this power that makes C such a dangerous > > language to program in -- it's what makes it so easy to crash > > your program, any other program running on the same machine, > > Nonsense. Under Windows 3.0 that may be true, but on any real > OS, you can't "crash any other program running on the same > machien" in C, assembly, Python, or Lisp.
given that it's trivial to create fork bombs and memory monsters in all those languages, I think you might need to define the term "real OS". (or do you run all your programs in a virtual sandbox ?) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list