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  1. 05-06-2003, 02:12 PM #1
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    The Programming Language of Hackers?

    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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    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...
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.

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    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

    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.
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  8. 05-08-2003, 11:08 AM #8
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    If you asked Kevin Mitnick what language he's used the most for "hacking," he would probably say English.
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    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!
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    Assembly is very popular for the hacking community.
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