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Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 26 March 2019 17:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] ASN.1 vs. DER Encoding
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:25:45PM +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2019, at 17:49, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> > 
> > It's always easier to create new legacy than to deal with old legacy,
> > even though new legacy very soon becomes old legacy, and so new legacy
> > is invariably worse than old legacy, just not right away.  Few
> > understand this.
> 
> Oh, it’s legacy when you already have typed it in.

Yes.

> But I’d still rather program in C++20 legacy than in FORTRAN II legacy.

And I'd rather program in Rust.  But a lot of legacy is in C, so I've to
deal with C as well.  Thankfully no Fortran.  But someone will still
have to maintain the legacy you and I would rather not touch.

Nico
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