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Re: Are you wolfing tonight?

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• Subject: [mg100108] Re: Are you wolfing tonight?
• From: dbreiss at gmail.com
• Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 06:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Also, just as with webMathematica, care needs to be taken for security
reasons not to accept just any Mathematica expression.

For example one would like to avoid things like (don't execute
this....  you have been warned!)

DeleteDirectory[Directory[], DeleteContents -> True]

:-)



On May 22, 1:45 am, Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> Unless Mathematica is about to be given away free to everybody, I cannot
> be the least surprised that W|A doesn't accept every legitimate
> Mathematica input expression!
>
> David Bailey wrote:
>
> > I notice that it accepts some, but not all Mathematica syntax. For
> > example, Integrate and D commands seem to be accepted, but something
> > like FullForm[{a,b,c}] was not.
>
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  • Re: Are you wolfing tonight?
    • From: David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk>