In article <vjwdnzbzqsvzowrunz2dnuvz_rdin...@posted.usinternet>, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote:
> My guess is that it was _supposed_ to > be a CRC routine, but somebody botched it. They used the same > botched routine on the host end when they did testing, so > nobody noticed it was broken. Stuff like this happens all the time. That's why RFC 2026 requires, "a specification from which at least two independent and interoperable implementations from different code bases have been developed". To drag this back on topic, however, it's interesting to note that Python itself has been successful, while still being essentially a single implementation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
