Re: Cross platform password string encryption

henr...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
That depends on what you want to measure. What do you think would be
the most relevant entity to use for a quantification of the importance
of programming language? Lines of code written in the language? The
total time any code written in the language has been executed by a CPU?
Number of developers working in the language on a daily basis? Money
spent on writing code in the language?

Well given that it's solely an opinion there is no one metric.

I'd say C controls far more critical resources than Java or Delphi [put
together]. Hint: think operating system kernels.

I have nothing against Delphi. I just think it's second rate compared
to C for most tasks. :-)

I respect your personal preference, but I also think you don't help
anyone by trying to convince Delphi programmers to switch to C. We have
discussed the quality of Delphi/Pascal vs C in the past, but I think we
can at least agree about one thing: Writing poor code doesn't improve
application security, and writing code in a "second language" increases
the risk of bugs by some percent independent of the overall skills of
the developer.

Dude, I'm just messing with you anyways. I started writing programs in
Turbo Pascal. I only moved on to C because I saw there were more cool
demos and what not in it.

I like C for one sole fact. It's close to the hardware.

Tom

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