[Cryptography] It's all K&R's fault

[Lodewijk andré de la porte]

2014-04-22 2:50 GMT+02:00 ianG <iang at iang.org>:

> > I'm sorry Ian, I have to raise an eyebrow at what is essentially saying
> "kids today are no damned good." When I was a kid, back in those days, kids
> were no damned good. C and its ilk were for lazy people who didn't want to
> learn how to program the *machine* dammit.
>
>
> Couldn't think of a snappy reply to this in less than a few days, so I
> guess I'm now old and cranky...


Lately all the talk of distrusting your compiler has me thinking this is
the right way to do it. It's not, of course. Kernels of the future will be
written in C# (or devirtualized Java) and hopefully Haskell (of maybe F#,
if we're not fully lucky).
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