Re: python and its dlopen implementation

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: python and its dlopen implementation
Date: 11:33 on 31 Jan 2006
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:29:19PM +0100, Phil Pennock said:
> Software hate of mine: RPC libraries which include some cryptographic
> checksums which are almost-MD5 but called MD5.  MD5 with a different
> initialisation vector.  But the internal library uses the same function
> names as the standard ones.

Ah, yes.

I've had that problem with mysql and various crypt and hashing 
functions.

I know that C is, for many things, by far the best langauge. It has many 
plus points and it even has a couple of charming quirks.

But goddamn is it fucking retarded. There are so many little language 
features that would have made life these days so much easier. 

 
There's stuff above here

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