Re: [SC-L] re-writing college books - erm.. ahm...

2006-11-06 Thread pete werner
On 11/7/06, Wall, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Developers have to cut corners somewhere, and since security issues > are not paramount, that's often what gets overlooked. > this is the biggest issue i think. it gets overlooked because management dont value it. partly because its expensive

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread ljknews
At 10:47 AM -0500 11/6/06, der Mouse wrote: >> I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a >> complete rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in >> pure C (with an OOP looks-like somewhere). > > Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you have to abandon C? You

Re: [SC-L] re-writing college books - erm.. ahm...

2006-11-06 Thread Wall, Kevin
In response to a post by Jerry Leichter, Gadi Evron wrote... > A bridge is a single-purpose device. A watch is a simple > purpose computer, as was the Enigma machine, if we can call > it such. > > Multi-purpose computers or programmable computers are where > our problems start. Anyone can DO and

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread der Mouse
> I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a > complete rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in > pure C (with an OOP looks-like somewhere). Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you have to abandon C? You mention C++, C#, and Java, but no other languages;

Re: [SC-L] re-writing college books - erm.. ahm...

2006-11-06 Thread Leichter, Jerry
| Most of the incidents in your first paragraph were improved with the | establishment of laws, regulation bodies, and external testing with a | stamp of approval. The Underwriters labaroratory was established to | ensure that a product was sales worthy to the public due to | manufacturers focusin

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/6/06, SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All! > > I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a complete > rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in pure C (with > an OOP looks-like somewhere). > > This program should run on Linux, freebsd and windo

Re: [SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread psteichen
for cross-platform C# there is the mono project which do a great jpb of porting the .NET framework to the Linux world, check it out at : http://www.mono-project.com/further perl or python (which are more or less cross-platform) might also be used for your rewrite project, all depends one your speci

Re: [SC-L] re-writing college books - erm.. ahm...

2006-11-06 Thread Paul Powenski
Most of the incidents in your first paragraph were improved with the establishment of laws, regulation bodies, and external testing with a stamp of approval. The Underwriters labaroratory was established to ensure that a product was sales worthy to the public due to manufacturers focusing on sales

Re: [SC-L] re-writing college books - erm.. ahm...

2006-11-06 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Leichter, Jerry wrote: > Much as I agree with many of the sentiments expressed in this discussion, > there's a certain air of unreality to it. While software has it's own > set of problems, it's not the first engineered artifact with security > implications in the history of th

[SC-L] Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

2006-11-06 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! I read this thread and I little be afraid. I'm just ahead of a complete rewriting of my program. The previous code was written in pure C (with an OOP looks-like somewhere). This program should run on Linux, freebsd and windows platform. This program is a GUI, so it has a graphical interfa

Re: [SC-L] re-writing college books [was: Re: A banner year for software bugs | Tech News on ZDNet]

2006-11-06 Thread mikeiscool
On 11/5/06, David Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mikeiscool wrote: > > >> > Don't go there, sister. Come up with some reasonable tests before making a > statement like that. "Assembly code can be as much as a million times faster > then the run time of a C++ version of the same algorithm." Bi