random number generator random() questionable!!!?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Sep6.032718.16696 at dmp.csiro.au> sfy at dmp.csiro.au (Shane Youl) writes:
>    (see "Random Number Generators: Good Ones are Hard to
>    Find", Communications of the ACM, October 1988 v31 #10.)

I found it hard to believe that CACM accepted that article, which was
full of unjustified assertions and did not at all advance the art of
designing pseudo-random sequence generators.