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		larodi 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in... So, Perl with its tainted-data tracking mechanism is not considered safe. Weird.

johnisgood 5 months ago [–]

Does it explicitly say so? I could not find "Perl" in the PDF. There are only examples of MSLs. Perl not making the example list does not mean it is not one. It is a non-exhaustive list.

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