On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:04:19 -0500 rjack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > > On Thu, 31 May 2007 20:19:17 -0500 > > > But only an idiot without knowledge about programming can argue that > > because a program performs the same well-defined function as another > > program (i.e. compiling 'C' code or performing an FTP transfer) its > > internal structures and algorithms have to be so similar as to be > > indistinguishable "after applying trivial obfuscation". > > Idiot? Hmmmmmm....
Do you claim that there is only one way to write an FTP client (or server), a 'C' compiler, or any program that performs a well-defined function? I would be interested in your argumentation, as it would, mean that once a program performs a well-defined function it cannot be improved. Back in the eighties I wrote an interpreter that implemented a well-defined language. The second release was an order of magnitude faster because I went from a pure interpreter to an incremental compiler, but the interpreted language didn't change one jot. Would you maintain that both versions were identical "after applying trivial obfuscation"? -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. -- Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss