Scripting languages

[Brian Densmore]

Does any one use PERL or Python or Ruby?

 I have been reading about this new script language Ruby. 
 It looks really cool, but I have a few questions 
 (which would be relevant to Perl|Python also).
 It allows regular expressions. My concerns on this are, 
 how can I use such a language and protect myself from nasty 
 little blue meanies bent on destroying my computer? 
 Say I have an online comments entry web page. 
 How do I protect myself from some kid typing in a regular
 expression that resolves to say "rm -rf /"?
 
TIA,

Brian Densmore
Associate
mailto:densmoreb at ctbsonline.com
CompuTech Business Solutions, Inc.
http://www.ctbsonline.com/