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3 points by sacado 6139 days ago | link | parent

"I think we do not have a Lisp plug-in for browsers"

Well, we have JavaScript, and it is not really safer by design than Lisp (they are quite close, too). But JavaScript has a security manager, quite restrictive sometimes. And look at rebol : that's also a close relative to Lisp and it's got a cool security manager.

Well, they mainly prevent you from reading/writing the host filesystem or from connecting to undesired remote servers.

Lacker, this might not be as "secure" as Java's model, and not exactly what you were asking as it does not prevent you from overwriting another's code, but it is obviously enough to run untrusted code on one's machine. And to implement it, you only need to overwrite the dedicated axioms in ac.scm.



1 point by kennytilton 6139 days ago | link

"Well, we have JavaScript,"

Then there was that other ILC where the speaker argued we Lispers should rejoice because Javascript was a Lisp and was in all the browsers. Make sure there are no children in the room and I'll tell you what happened next.

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1 point by sacado 6139 days ago | link

Compared to Java (i.e., seen from far away), it is. Well, of course, code isn't also data in JavaScript :)

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1 point by kennytilton 6138 days ago | link

Many agree. Here is a blog entry on the ILC guy I mentioned:

  http://bc.tech.coop/blog/030920.html
Looks I'll be tearing into ActionScript shortly, I'll let you know. :)

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