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Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by mcnamaratw on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:32PM (#15429578)
I'm not making the claim. It seems to be in the linked article:

""That's a security vulnerability!", you protest. "You are ... literally ... injecting remote code into your program."

Playing the devil's advocate, I ask you what is wrong with remote code injection

"Well, for starters, if the URL is compromised the attacker can run arbitrary code like ..."

... reading and writing files? Dhall is totally pure and doesn't support any effects at all (besides heating up CPUs ).

This brings us full circle back to our original "

Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by marcosdumay on Sunday October 08, 2017 @08:17PM (#15430754)
Oh, ok. On the specific case of Dhall, it can not.