On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:48:02PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > If my number theory was stronger, and I was more familiar with the > related code, I would be rather tempted, but my programming background > leans far more to compilers and API definitions, translations and > interfaces, as well as user interfaces. You don't usually want your > compilers introducing too much entropy into the code they produce.
Writing interfaces and glue code and getting it to compile is 99% of the work in most projects we have. Another 0.9% is stealing working code from other projects (there are lots of random pool mixers out there that we can just plug in, and we do: My random translator is based on gnupg's entropy mixer). The remaining 0.1% is writing real code ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
