Microsoft included a lot of "syntactic sugar" in C#. This is a much maligned phrase as I think there is harm that comes with syntactic sugar.
The expression is accurate. Sugar in food is usually there to either hide a bad taste or to make up for a lack of taste. It makes you fat, gives you diabetes and rots your teeth.
Not sure how a phrase can be maligned anyway. I suspect you're using the word without knowing what it means.
The point is that you don't want US companies AIDING foreign companies in creating cryptography systems to which the details are not known.
Surely if US companies created it the US authorites have more chance of finding the details than if it's written by an Indian software house or a Latvian teenager?
If you don't know how to program, you have no business maintaining the program before you learn to code.
Sorry, but that isn't what you originally wrote. Seems you're squirming.
Still, you seem to be getting modded up, though I suspect that's the low user-id effect. It sure as heck isn't what you say.
No one is reporting the number of companies that NTP approached regarding licensing the technology.
If the grandparent is correct (as I suspect) there was no technology to license. Or do you consider a vague statement along the lines of "Wouldn't it be nice if X" or "Y! That would be like tot4l77y teh k3wl!" to be technology?
someone who doesn't know the language has no business maintaining the code.
If you're a decent programmer and you have productive experience in a couple of languages already, it's likely you can pick up enough of a new language
like the IRS guy I go to lodge with). That's a fundamental difference, in my opinion.
Yeah, I'd trust someone who rolls up his trouser legs and goes to secret meetings where they play at overgrown boy-scouts with funny handshakes. Top guys. Never involved in any corruption, ever. No no no. On the level and all that.
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Too good, in fact.
Not sure how a phrase can be maligned anyway. I suspect you're using the word without knowing what it means.
Dwarfs and Elves - will they ever make up?
Breakfasttime News
Shoes - who needs 'em?
Second Breakfasttime News.
Have they got internet enabled ouija boards now? According to the register, he's dead! Mind you, Netcraft doesn't confirm it yet.
Unlikely, you don't often get two consecutive numbers that are prime.
Just asking, like.
1) Put money in bank account
2) Have your pal steal your identity and the money
3) Bank recompenses you
4) Split PROFIT!!!!!
Not being a fucktard tip: people's names are words too.