Harvard vs. vonNeuman

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue Sep 28 17:06:03 2004

On Sep 28, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:05 -0400, David V. Corbin wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> Can you create self modifying code in any high level
>>>>> language, the kind of code where the application program
>>>>> actually changes it's own instructions?
>> Actually this is (sort of) becoming more common.
>
> I suppose it's been around in interpreted languages for years. No doubt
> you-know-who will claim they invented it though (and worse still, most
> of the users will believe them)

Or they will try to patent it.

>
>> This means that any program can
>> write source code to a string (or other structure) and compile and
>> execute
>> it!!!!!!
>
> Sounds like a dream come true for virus writers :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Jules
>
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 28 2004 - 17:06:03 BST