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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Oct 1 10:50:48 2013

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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:05:29 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: "jamesd@echeque.com" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 1 October 2013 09:46, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:

>  On 2013-10-01 18:06, Ben Laurie wrote:
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> On 1 October 2013 01:10, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
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> Further, google is unhappy that too-clever-code gives too-clever
>> programmers too much power, and has prohibited its employees from ever
>> doing something like protobufs again.
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>  Wat? Sez who?
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>    Protobufs is code generating code.  Not allowed by google style guide.
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News to me - where does it say that?

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_quote">On 1 October 2013 09:46, James A. Donald <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a h=
ref=3D"mailto:jamesd@echeque.com" target=3D"_blank">jamesd@echeque.com</a>&=
gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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    <div>On 2013-10-01 18:06, Ben Laurie wrote:<br>
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          <br>
          <div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div class=3D"im">On 1 October 2013 01=
:10, James A.
            Donald <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:jamesd@echeque.c=
om" target=3D"_blank">jamesd@echeque.com</a>&gt;</span>
            wrote:<br>
            <br>
            </div><div class=3D"im"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote">Furth=
er, google is unhappy
              that too-clever-code gives too-clever programmers too much
              power, and has prohibited its employees from ever doing
              something like protobufs again.</blockquote>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Wat? Sez who?</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
          </div></div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    Protobufs is code generating code.=A0 Not allowed by google style
    guide.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>News to me - where doe=
s it say that?</div><div>=A0</div></div><br></div></div>

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