Quoting "Brian J. Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4. (Important) Ease of implementation on other platforms. Only the > core > computation stuff really needs to be optimized to all hell. The > server comms > & general control stuff would probably be more than efficient enough > if it > was implemented in perl, java or something else inefficient but > portable.
Also, there are security problems specific to C, like strcpy, that simply don't exist in interpreted languages. Nathan _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
