Re: Best Programming Language

[david lodge <resident.deity () gmail com>]

> I believe that every security specialist must be able to write his own
> tools, it's a handy skill and you would need it sooner or later.
>
> Can you share what is your programming language of choice, and why?

Whatever's easiest for the task and time that it's written. I may use
a number of languages to try initial exploits (including C, shell,
awk, python, perl or even nasl).

A lot of choices may also be restricted by available libraries (e.g.
doing some work with flash local shared objects, meant the python was
the only real choice unless I rolled my own). Or it may just be
related to whatever you're doing at the time (e.g. my printer FTP
script was written in perl -- even though I hate perl[*] -- just
because I'd been doing a lot of Nikto work).

dave

[*] perl is sort of a poor man's awk/shell bastard mix with libraries
added, the libraries are pretty much all that saves it being consigned
to the wastebin of history.

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