NODE 036cfe46RE: Cyphercoding Training Wheels??
"Michael E. Carboy" <carboy@hooked.net>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:58:46 +0800
Greetings All,
I have been lurking as a newbie on the cypherpunks mailing list for 'bout one month. Have ordered Koblitz book on Number Theory and Applied Cryptography. As I slowly (and probably painfully) learn some number theory, I would like to start coding, particularly as it would related to encrypting and decrypting stuff. I ask the community's input as to whether I should use visual basic or visual C++ ??? I am using a windoze95 platform.
Any comments would be welcome.. thanks
Michael E. Carboy
carboy@hooked.net
finger for key
NODE 989ed09aRe: Cyphercoding Training Wheels??
Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:49:32 +0800
Michael E. Carboy wrote:
| I have been lurking as a newbie on the cypherpunks mailing list for =
| 'bout one month. Have ordered Koblitz book on Number Theory and Applied =
| Cryptography. As I slowly (and probably painfully) learn some number =
| theory, I would like to start coding, particularly as it would related =
| to encrypting and decrypting stuff. I ask the community's input as to =
| whether I should use visual basic or visual C++ ??? I am using a =
| windoze95 platform.
When you consider that many of the people who will grab this code &
play with it DON'T run on MS scaffolding (its not really a platform
:), I'd suggest C++, and make sure you isolate the MS specific
portions, so that whatever you do can be ported.
Adam
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