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1994-10-05 - Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl (crypto reference)

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
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Message ID: <199410051935.PAA02275@hermes.bwh.harvard.edu>
Reply To: <199410051827.NAA18355@pentagon.io.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-10-05 19:34:07 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 12:34:07 PDT

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 12:34:07 PDT
To: mccoy@io.com (Jim McCoy)
Subject: Re: Richard Stallman of GNU on Tcl (crypto reference)
In-Reply-To: <199410051827.NAA18355@pentagon.io.com>
Message-ID: <199410051935.PAA02275@hermes.bwh.harvard.edu>
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| language" holy flame wars of the year.  Tcl/tk is here and in widespread
| use, wishing it were otherwise isn't going to change reality.  The only
| good thing about the entire thread was that it brought python, which does
| have a bigint/mpz module built into it, to the attention of a few more
| people.  Lets get back to something useful...

But, before we do, a crypto comment which I found entertaining showed
up:

"Perl.  The only language that looks the same before and after RSA
encryption."

	We now return you to your regularly scheduled Chomsky debate,
here on the Cypherpunks channel.

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