Re: What programming language is the most widely used to make viruses?

On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:59:33 -0700, Scott Moore
<samiamsansspam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Alex wrote:
>
>> Java has its uses. Writing platform-independant code is impossible in
>> C, and crossplatform source is difficult in any language. I wouldn't
>
>That is not true at all. There are C porting packages, and many carefully
>written C packages port without changes to many platforms. Because people
>choose not to write portable C code is not the language's fault.

I worded that incorrectly. What I meant was that the compiled code
cannot usually be run directly on another OS or CPU architecture.
Platform-independent source is possible.

>> I've coded for Windows in C++. It was not an enjoyable experience. It
>> was even worse before I learned to use the API instead of MFC.
>
>Few people program direct to the Win API (I don't). Whats wrong with MFC ?
>I've never used it, but it seems to have a large following.

I just don't like dealing with everything as 'objects' when there's a
perfectly sensible procedural API that does the job.
For an ex-BASIC, ex-Machine-Code programmer, Object Orientation is a
difficult concept... ;)

Besides, compared to Java's OOP APIs, MFC sucks hard mainly because of
the manual memory management.



Alex Davidson

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