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

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> >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.

Wasn't it Djikstra who wrote that "there is no language in which it is not 
the least bit possible to write buggy code"?

-- Dave