DuronFanatic
05-06-2003, 02:12 PM
I was talking to a teacher who asked me what programming language hackers use. The only two I could think of is Pearl and C++? Is there any others out there? Thanks
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Strogian
05-06-2003, 06:56 PM
As many as possible. :)
cjohnson
05-06-2003, 10:53 PM
I took a class once, and on the first day we went around the room and people said what programming languages they used/knew. When I said perl, the teacher laughed and said "perl is for hackers. are you a hacker?", then again that teacher was an idiot...
Remington
05-07-2003, 12:55 AM
Originally posted by cjohnson
I took a class once, and on the first day we went around the room and people said what programming languages they used/knew. When I said perl, the teacher laughed and said "perl is for hackers. are you a hacker?", then again that teacher was an idiot...
Truly, he must not know much about the subject. Although I figure that in most cases, people confuse the different meanings of the word hacker so it's not their stupidity but ignorance. Back to the topic, I suppose most hackers try to learn as many languages as possible, but if you're talking elitist types I'd have to say C++ or assembly or any other suitably complex language.
I took a class once, and on the first day we went around the room and people said what programming languages they used/knew. When I said perl, the teacher laughed and said "perl is for hackers. are you a hacker?", then again that teacher was an idiot...
Truly, he must not know much about the subject. Although I figure that in most cases, people confuse the different meanings of the word hacker so it's not their stupidity but ignorance. Back to the topic, I suppose most hackers try to learn as many languages as possible, but if you're talking elitist types I'd have to say C++ or assembly or any other suitably complex language.
Tekime
05-07-2003, 01:38 AM
Lol... what language do hackers use? Is this the history teacher or are they smoking something?
If said teacher intended to say script kiddies/malicious hackers/crackers/phreakers/etc. I would say assembly, C/C++, and various scripting languages, most with VBScript, JScript, Perl and ASP near the top of the list.
If they meant hacker as in Richard Stallman or Eric Raymond, I would say any and all languages that are required of them to get the job done.
If said teacher intended to say script kiddies/malicious hackers/crackers/phreakers/etc. I would say assembly, C/C++, and various scripting languages, most with VBScript, JScript, Perl and ASP near the top of the list.
If they meant hacker as in Richard Stallman or Eric Raymond, I would say any and all languages that are required of them to get the job done.
rock
05-07-2003, 05:55 AM
I would say most of todays hackers use a majority of scripting languages over real programming languages. Sure, most viruses are going to be C++ and trojan horses are going to be in C or C++, but most of hacking is repetative tasks geared well towards many scripting languages including those mentioned by tekime.
Caesar War
05-07-2003, 08:18 AM
Originally posted by cjohnson
I took a class once, and on the first day we went around the room and people said what programming languages they used/knew. When I said perl, the teacher laughed and said "perl is for hackers. are you a hacker?", then again that teacher was an idiot...
but then again... I once heard FLASH was also the language of hackers :p
anyway back on topic I agree with most of you, there's no such thing as a "hacker's language", most of them real hackers learn as much languages as possible, and most of their work was done in C or assembler (or any other kind of low level language). Nowadays the trend is going into asp and other vbscripts kind of thingies.
I took a class once, and on the first day we went around the room and people said what programming languages they used/knew. When I said perl, the teacher laughed and said "perl is for hackers. are you a hacker?", then again that teacher was an idiot...
but then again... I once heard FLASH was also the language of hackers :p
anyway back on topic I agree with most of you, there's no such thing as a "hacker's language", most of them real hackers learn as much languages as possible, and most of their work was done in C or assembler (or any other kind of low level language). Nowadays the trend is going into asp and other vbscripts kind of thingies.
Grizzly
05-08-2003, 11:08 AM
If you asked Kevin Mitnick what language he's used the most for "hacking," he would probably say English.
Tekime
05-08-2003, 11:17 AM
Originally posted by Grizzly
If you asked Kevin Mitnick what language he's used the most for "hacking," he would probably say English.
Heh, very good point!
If you asked Kevin Mitnick what language he's used the most for "hacking," he would probably say English.
Heh, very good point!
rAph
05-08-2003, 07:42 PM
Assembly is very popular for the hacking community.
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