D and the world

[Dan]

eao197 Wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:39:11 +0400, Don Clugston <dac at nospam.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >>> No :), I was just pointing out that you can do this with D too. I'm not
> >>> sure how much better Nemerle would do.
> >>  Nemerle allows to call code from any library at compile time.
> >
> > Wow. Would this let you implement a text-only virus (during compilation,  
> > secretly duplicates itself into the source code of all your other  
> > Nemerle projects)?
> 
> May be. I'm not a Nemerle programmer so I can't say more precisely.
> 
> But when I use some third party tool (something like IDL translator or  
> ASN.1 compiler, or even lib.exe from DMD distribution) that tool can  
> secretly modify my D projects ;) Or may be something like that can take  
> place when I'm configuring some Unix project via './configure' :))
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Yauheni Akhotnikau

Frightening.  Especially with all these massive project people like to make where obscuring such a virus would be easy.

Good thing I don't use such projects.

"I don't understand how it's possible to both use more than 10,000 lines of high level code, and solve a problem in the same program"
- me