Perry E. Metzger writes:
To (perhaps over)simplify my point, the Java interpreter cannot be stripped of all i/o capabilities and still remain useful.
?!? What if all I give you is a couple of Java classes that write to a frame buffer, and that frame buffer is the screen (or your 24-pin dot matrix printer or whatever)?
I can physically remove all the "dangerous" calls from a Postscript interpreter and still have it be useful.
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