> they are usually poorly documented, which creates a large burden on > driver implementers having to follow all intricacies of the code (in my > case in a language that I'm not fluent in) to understand what changes > they need to implement. Especially with code involving encryption or > compression, C++ code is not the most readable when you have to > reimplement in a different language (or find the right library to do the > work for you). That is why I'm stressing that things need to be specced > and documented when it involves the wire protocol.
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