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For example, there's no way to directly write to a specific memory address in Perl (without using XS).
I think you mean to say that there's no supported way to write to a specific memory address in Perl. There are many unsupported methods to do so.
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Re^6: Completely removing a perl function.
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 29, 2006 at 16:04 UTC
    Those are bugs in perl. They're not there by design, they're not supposed to be there, and if the implementation was correct, they wouldn't be there.
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      So? Security deals with reality, not theoretical ideals.
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