Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:18:35 -0700

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:58:01 GMT, caj@B-r-a-i-n-H-z.com (Xcott Craver)
wrote:

>Alan Balmer <albalmer@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) wrote:
>>
>>> For shame. You should be embarrassed to make comments like this.
>>> Bernstein is a fantastic computer scientist, and I'd be delighted to learn
>>> from him any day of the week. Do you believe that anyone you disagree
>>> with must be a poor teacher? Do you believe that you can dismiss the
>>> possibility that he is a good teacher from reading a few sci.crypt posts?
>>
>>sci.crypt? Until you mentioned that, I hadn't noticed the cross-post.
>
> I deduced this already, for if you have any background in crypto
> or security you know who Dr. Bernstein is.
>
> I have mentioned some of his recent research in my class last
> semester; I know of no comparable results contributed by his detractors.
>
You seem to think that I should be impressed by "who Dr. Berstein is."
On the subject of the C language, its standardization, and the use of
C in the real world, his writings speak for him, and I am not
impressed. 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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