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

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Apr 18 21:45:04 EDT 2014


Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> writes:

>What's important isn't the language as such, and it's been proven over and
>over again that it's possible to write unsafe code in any language.  

This was first stated (in variant form) by Ed Post in "Real Programmers Don't
Use PASCAL":

  The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language

Peter.



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