From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org
Subject: Re: [mlmmj] Google Summer of Code
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:18:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7494C8.9020009@goirand.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=N6TUvhAPjxrR=iR3gJc_LQXCXR+kxSUqPL_bp@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/07/2011 12:31 AM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:32:09PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> IMHO, using C for writing web interfaces is both counter-productive and
>> a security risk.
>
> Not really any more than writing an MLM in C...
> IMHO, C is perfectly fine, as long as the programmers know what they're doing.
> A not-insignificant part of your operating system is written in C, and you
> don't consider that a security risk, do you?
That part isn't facing the web.
You write thing in C when you need things to be fast. Here, for just
browsing the archive, I don't see the point. It's using a carrier to
cross a river...
> I'd still prefer not to use a DB at all. The idea that everything needs to be
> backed by a full-fledged database with access control and whatever is a common
> mistake in computing.> For something as simple as mlmmj, UNIX permissions should
> suffice.
Yes, I agree 100%.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 20:40 [mlmmj] Google Summer of Code Wolf Bergenheim
2011-03-04 3:47 ` Marcelo
2011-03-04 3:48 ` Marcelo
2011-03-04 13:14 ` Mark Alan
2011-03-04 13:38 ` Christoph Thiel
2011-03-04 14:22 ` Thomas Goirand
2011-03-04 15:13 ` Christoph Thiel
2011-03-04 22:45 ` Wolf Bergenheim
2011-03-05 1:01 ` Marcelo
2011-03-06 12:29 ` Ben Schmidt
2011-03-06 15:32 ` Thomas Goirand
2011-03-06 16:31 ` Moritz Wilhelmy
2011-03-07 8:18 ` Thomas Goirand [this message]
2011-03-07 10:07 ` Ben Schmidt
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