Magnus Therning schrieb:
There is of course the possibility that Haskell would bring a whole slew of yet-to-be-determined security issues. I doubt it will be worse than C though.
Haskell might be prone to denial-of-service attacks. E.g. sending it data that cause it to evaluate an infinite data structure. Of course, any algorithm might run into an endless loop :-) Still, I'd want to have the results of a strictness analysis attached to Haskell software. That said, Haskell should be a *lot* more safe than C. Denial-of-service is something that one should take active precautions against, but it's still a far cry from the code injection vulnerabilities that come with most C software... Then again, avoiding global state and using a language with garbage collection, a strong type discipline and checked pointer dereferencing (say: Java, Ruby, Python, whatever) would probably go a far way towards safer software, even if it's not an FPL. Regards, Jo