On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Gary McGraw wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> I think there is a bit of confusion here WRT "root" problems. In C, the
> main problem is not simply strings and string representation, but rather
> that the "sea of bits" can be recast to represent most anything. The
> technica
>
> > Although point entry is tedious, it keeps the cert honest. You
> can't spend 3
> > years converting oxygen into CO2 and remain certified. You actually have to
> > do a few things. A CISSP person who has renewed once or twice is quite
> > different from someone who has passed the exam after
This is kind of a funny discussion, to those of us over a "certain
age". When I was a young-un :-), the argument was that you couldn't
write real software in a "high level" language like C because it was
too inefficient compared to assembly language, and you lost
flexibility since you didn't have
