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Whoever said that OpenSSL was written by monkeys continues to be proven right.

That's a fairly rude thing to say. Would you say that to their faces? This is a pretty large site, and a lot of people stop by here, possibly including some of the "monkeys" .

By all means, call the code what you want, but separate that from the people.

something tells me a similar snafu made by a CS student would get "fairly rude" comments in reply by any competent instructor or advisor.

you say that and yet I have had to teach people coming from several fairly top institutions that "no your lecturer was wrong, it is inappropriate to directly memcpy() from the network into a struct"

Well Ted Nugent (not to mention Ann Coulter) got away with calling Obama a "monkey," and he's the highly respected darling of the GOP, whose endorsement is sought after and appreciated by not only Republican senators and congressmen, but Mitt Romney himself.

(I'm not endorsing anyone's behavior here, just pointing out how low the right hand side of modern American politics has degenerated, to provide some perspective.)

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