Good news
Phew, one less code-base to support and troubleshoot at work
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are claiming to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same, and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation. Security experts have been debating if the two code groups are by the same authors, but the evidence …
with the right editor C++/python/ruby/smalltalk template programming can be exactly like that. I went to a developers conference 6 years ago where such an editor was demonstrated. It was like playing tetris with drag-n-drop elements. The code in the backend was horrendous to look at though, which I suppose kind of explains the size of modern malware.
competent assembly language programmers are still paid enough to not want to deal with malware (unless, that is, they are specifically hired to develop it - in which case the proper title should be "spyware", except that title is already (improperly) taken by commercial spyware, which is often crappily built.