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"Clearly you can always shoot yourself in the foot if your language is expressive enough (like any Turing-complete language)."

This is a common misunderstanding of being Turing complete. A program running in an interpreter isn't unsafe just because the programming language and the interpreter are Turing complete. Being Turing complete doesn't mean being able to gain root access, overwrite the boot block, scribble on the hard drive, etc.




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