Roy Smith wrote:
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.
That's because it's open source, so many people can test and debug it.
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