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Re: FW: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri May 7 15:04:32 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 17:50:08 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Elyn Wollensky <EWollensky@idgbooks.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, karn@qualcomm.com, Defcon Stuff <dc-stuff@dis.org>
Elyn Wollensky wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Rose [ mailto:lawcasters@earthlink.net
> <mailto:lawcasters@earthlink.net> ]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:58 AM
> To: Elyn Wollensky
> Cc: lawcasters@earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up
[snip]
> - the fact
> that we reach for the easiest, broad purpose reference system that works,
> originally derived from human language, does not turn our use of this tool
> in computer programming into human-to-human speech
This misses the point, totally. If someone wants me to explain how an
algorithm works, or how to best set up a data structure, or how to
write a program, I write code. Real code. In C++, usually. I may be
weird, but I'm definitely human and not a computer, and so are the
people I write the code for.
Cheers,
Ben.
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