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Bob Welcome to the Monastery  Re^3: How to answer "Perl is not
secure" objections?  by zentara (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2007 at
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in reply to Re^2: How to answer "Perl is not secure" objections?
in thread How to answer "Perl is not secure" objections?  While
we are on the subject, of a "Perl browser plugin" , like the in
our browser's plugin directory; what has stopped the Perl
developers from doing this? From my limited understanding, the
java plugin is just a java interpreter with the functions which
pose a security risk removed, leaving only simple computational
and display functions, and which limits display in the parent's
(browser's) allocated window.  When I build Perl, I see the mini
and micro Perl interpreters, which are limited versions. Would
it be that hard to modify those to be a secure browser plugin?
Then maybe add a chopped-down Tk or Gtk2 display engine to it?
Now I wish