[55488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mathew Lodge)
Wed Jan 29 15:59:54 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:58:58 -0800
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Mathew Lodge <Mathew@CPlane.com>
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At 07:32 PM 1/29/2003 +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
>s/compiler/programmer/
>
>Now write programs to toss around buf_t* instead of char*. It's
>not that difficult.
No, it isn't, as is doing buf_t[x] rather than pointer arithmetic, but the
*practical* problem is that you really need
1,$s/compiler/programmer/
:-)
In other words, there are far fewer compilers, interpreters, Java Virtual
Machines, libraries etc. in use than there are programmers using them. So
working the tools angle gives you leverage across far more programmers and
the programs they create.
Cheers,
Mathew
