[48668] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cyphercoding Training Wheels??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Jan 30 10:34:13 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: carboy@hooked.net (Michael E. Carboy)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:30:48 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <01BAEE8F.D6BF3860@chum-55.ppp.hooked.net> from "Michael E. Carboy" at Jan 29, 96 09:21:52 pm
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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