[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ised

[ianG]

On 3/10/13 00:37 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>
>> Always keep in mind - when you argue for "easy readability" - that one
>> of COBOL's design goals was for programs to be readable and
>> understandable by non-programmers.
>
> Managers, in particular.


SQL, too, had that goal.  4GLs (remember them?).  XML.  Has it ever worked?



iang