[KLUG Members] Scripting language

[Adam Williams]

> >>doing this and the avowed reason was to avoid the possibility of having 
> >>"script kiddies" mess around on the system.  Don't know if it works though.
> >Javascript doesn't do anything to block script kiddies.  They can just
> >form raw POST events with something like curl or wget.  Javascript is
> >about improving the application interface by adding a bit of
> >interactivity.
> The point about script kiddies had little to do with JavaScript which 
> was mentioned merely as a way to check form data.  Probably it might 
> have been omitted.
> The point was that using binary CGI programs written in C++ for example, 
> means that there are no server side scripts for such a larcenous 
> individual to mess with.
> I'm just not sure if binary programs are any safer because I am not much 

They are not.

> of a web programmer.  Depends on how you write them I suppose.  

Entirely.

> Secure code, buffer overruns and all that.

Yep.