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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ised
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ianG)
Thu Oct 3 09:51:01 2013
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:19:47 +0300
From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
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On 3/10/13 00:37 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>
>> Always keep in mind - when you argue for "easy readability" - that one
>> of COBOL's design goals was for programs to be readable and
>> understandable by non-programmers.
>
> Managers, in particular.
SQL, too, had that goal. 4GLs (remember them?). XML. Has it ever worked?
iang
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