- From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:40:12 -0800 (PST)
- To: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
> One element of modern application programs that has so far pretty much been > neglected in Web client development is the integrated scripting language. (We've been doing some things like this in network management rather than WWW, and we're using Scheme and other compact languages rather than TCL.) I think it's important to make a very clear distinction between scripts which are to run in (or alongside) the user's browser or in the user's computer from those scripts which are to run in servers. The security and resource consumption concerns are different. What we had (have) trouble with is this: Management of the scripts that we've launched to servers. The trouble is that they can migrate away or that we (or our machines) somehow forget about their existance. Sometimes we want to kill-off a worm that did unexpected bad things. Overall, it seems a bad idea to have the ability to launch a potentially infinite-lived worm out onto the net. (Now, where *did* I put my copy of Shockwave Rider?) --karl--
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