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Re: Another use for Guile/Scheme/Lisp


> IMO it's both simpler and more flexible to use the module system to
> enforce security. You can just give untrusted code an environment that
> has no dangerous bindings, and no way to break out. In fact, you could
> download code from the net, compile it to native with hobbit+gcc, and
> still trust it, given an appropriate module system, without needing to
> add any runtime overhead at all.

This is my preferred implementation as well.