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

Scott Moore wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>
>
>>>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.
>
>
> I agree, I use a procedural library that covers the Windows API (the IP
> layer). I suspect most object type people don't see a problem that
> all of the Win32 overlay libraries out there are object oriented. Still,
> I suspect there are a few such procedural libraries. I personally want
> a library that allows the use of both. Have you looked at (for example)
> GTK ?
>

Oh, well, I guess I'll take that back, it seems to be GTK+, and there
does not appear to be a procedural version.

Windows, but not Apple Mac or X Windows, tends to encourage object oriented
development because it relies heavily on callbacks, which match objects
with virtual methods better than procedural code.

I wanted to program Windows using procedural code, so I created a library
(called the IP portability layer) to do that. It's not that I find object
oriented difficult, I just don't appreciate the idea that all of the old
code has to be thrown out everytime the programming community gets
a woody for some new programming paradigm. New ways to do things, great.
New ways to do things while also supporting the old, much better.

.

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