From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Goirand Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:18:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] Google Summer of Code Message-Id: <4D7494C8.9020009@goirand.fr> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org 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