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20:29:31
mfiano
It's been broken and unmaintained for a few years now, due to Spacemacs introducing too many breaking changes for me to continue using it. I would recommend Doom Emacs where Sly is built-in
20:31:27
wasamasa
> One of the greatest hacking programming languages, LISP was the go-to solution for crafting innovative solutions to software problems among old-school hackers. Although the language has lost most of its appeal due to its somewhat complicated programming style and the emergence of verbose languages like Python and Ruby, those who know LISP are the most respected in the hacker community.
20:31:27
wasamasa
> It is the best programming language for hacking into complex networks and will also earn you notoriety among fellow hackers.
20:31:57
wasamasa
not the kind of lisp endorsement I expected, most likely written by a marketing drone
20:32:57
wasamasa
> The scheme offers delayed evaluation, meaning you can develop asynchronous software with it pretty easily.
21:04:18
mdhughes
"The scheme emphasizes functional programming and recursive algorithms, making it a suitable choice for forging high-tech hacking programs. "
1:01:25
edgar-rft
master quiz question: tell a computer language that has never being used for writing malware
1:08:23
dash[m]
let's theorize a category of software called "goodware" that always does what the user wants
1:09:23
aeth
a lisp would be really hard to decompile because you might get the source, but you don't get the macros that generated that source
1:37:44
jcowan
moon-child: It is indeed easier and quicker, which is important in the mal-adware business.
6:33:01
pjb
moon-child: not really. run-time antiviruses just look at the accesses (they trap some syscall, etc). They don't care how the program does it, just what it does. static antiviruses would have it just as easy analysing the source than the binary. The only thing is that perhaps they don't bother analysing the sources, notably of "scripting" languages that need to be executed to determine 100% of the semantic.