I think all your safety concerns are totally unfounded. If you would take the time to follow the link and look at the pictures, you can plainly see that the robot could shoot no higher than the average persons kneecap.
So while a shot to the kneecap would be excrutiatingly painfull and potientially life crippling, it's hardly a matter of life and death.
Of course, if you are robbing a bank and slip and fall on the way out, be very afraid!
Python also comes with the tools to run the interpreter in a "restricted environment". This makes it rather straightforward for the developer to run python scripts inside a secure runtime.
It should be trivial for the developer to create a restrictued environment (or multiple environments with varying degress of flexibility), then allow an end user to decide which one the scripts run in.
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I think all your safety concerns are totally unfounded. If you would take the time to follow the link and look at the pictures, you can plainly see that the robot could shoot no higher than the average persons kneecap.
So while a shot to the kneecap would be excrutiatingly painfull and potientially life crippling, it's hardly a matter of life and death.
Of course, if you are robbing a bank and slip and fall on the way out, be very afraid!
The Ruby programming language is written from native japanese speakers. (would explain the delay on those docs)
I haven't looked at it much, but the idea of comparing it to other programming languages based on the native language of it's author is interesting.
Come to think of it, Python has grown from roots in Swedish?/Dutch? (argh, forgive my ignorance)
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.python.org
Python also comes with the tools to run the interpreter in a "restricted environment". This makes it rather straightforward for the developer to run python scripts inside a secure runtime.
It should be trivial for the developer to create a restrictued environment (or multiple environments with varying degress of flexibility), then allow an end user to decide which one the scripts run in.
(defaulting to most secure, i'd hope!)