[plt-scheme] Re: eq and hashing

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerzy Karczmarczuk" <karczma at info.unicaen.fr>
>
> I have a philosophical question, Gentlemen.
> Why do you call such programs "malicious"?

You were the first to use the word `malicious' in your
message  <Pine.LNX.4.50L.0305301045050.23168-100000 at duch.mimuw.edu.pl>

> For me they are simply stupid. In the worst case. Typically they are
> erroneous programs. Now, can any system or language processor protect
> itself agains errors?...

Yes.  This is part of engineering.  Consider such devices as
error-correcting
RAM.

> Of course the *resource* protection is necessary in all cases, including
> coorect programs, but this is a job for Civil Lawyers and Commerce
Chambers,
> not for the Crime Prevention Departments...

If I have a `runaway' program consuming all my processor time and memory,
the *last* person I want to talk to is a lawyer.