So ruby and perl are specifically designed to be a handler of untrusted data?
How do I know what other programs are designed for such a task? What's a "generic program"? At this day and age, it is expected that pretty much all software ought to be designed with security in mind (not that it always is). Because any piece of "generic software" (or just software) is otherwise going to be exploited. Especially on platform where double-clicking a file is the expected way to open it.
More importantly, the point we are making is that we're not expecting bash to "handle" anything. It gets some data. It's not supposed to do anything with it on its own. Period.
How do I know what other programs are designed for such a task? What's a "generic program"? At this day and age, it is expected that pretty much all software ought to be designed with security in mind (not that it always is). Because any piece of "generic software" (or just software) is otherwise going to be exploited. Especially on platform where double-clicking a file is the expected way to open it.
More importantly, the point we are making is that we're not expecting bash to "handle" anything. It gets some data. It's not supposed to do anything with it on its own. Period.