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

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Sat Apr 19 15:54:52 EDT 2014


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> Everything changed.  Everything in programming now is about how to get
> half-way decent, half-way survivable code out the door, with people who
> aren't up to the standards of the old days.
> 

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.

I'll get off your lawn now.

	Jon



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