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

[ianG]

On 19/04/2014 20:54 pm, Jon Callas wrote:
> 
>> 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.


Couldn't think of a snappy reply to this in less than a few days, so I
guess I'm now old and cranky...

> I'll get off your lawn now.


Ya!  iang