Re: Samba, Python, and two lions going head to head.

[Rodney Thayer <rodney () canola-jones com>]

Well, if you really want a flame war about languages, I'd
be happy to accomodate.  Probably doesn't matter, though.

Samba's interesting for several reasons, I agree.
One is the password generation stuff - they have the 
password generator you'd bolt to your cracker to learn that
people use lamer 4 character 802.1X passwords for PEAP-MSCHAPv2, for
example.

At 04:56 PM 1/21/2005 -0500, The Davester wrote:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-January/038989.html has a really neat thread to read. One thing I 
> noticed is that people spend a lot of time talking about memory allocation, which could be avoided with a pure higher 
> language approach. I really do think a pure-Python Samba would be a cool thing, but at this point that's basically 
> unthinkable. The main benefit would probably be developer time, and of course, security. I'm not sure why Samba is 
> written in C come to think of it. Perhaps there is a thread on that as well.
>
> Regardless, the Samba team is doing some neat work, even if you don't care about Samba itself. It's interesting to see 
> how a large open source project works, and how what personalities work in that context.
>
> -dave
>
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