On Wednesday 12 June 2013 15:39:58 Karl Schmidt did opine:

> > The problem is, this is an international development.  One specific
> > non-cooperating person is in England.
> 
> The right answer is to make a list of bits that would need to be
> re-written. Time with lawyers and courts are a psychic-energy-sink -
> re-doing sections of code, while time consuming, probably will use less
> time.
> 
> Creating this list is a tedious and thankless job, but once the list is
> made, it might be surprising how fast the code can be re-written.

+1000. Back when I dreamed in hexidecimal circa 1980, because I didn't even 
have an assembler, some of the code I decoded turned out to be pretty bad 
stuff, and when I redid it, it often wound up 1/3rd the size even after 
adding bounds checking and correspondingly faster.

Cheers, Gene
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