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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 04:46:29 Korath wrote:
>I just want to jump in on this thread and mention something that
>happened a long time back. Back when I was in highschool, I was in a
>programming class with a friend (pretty good friends at the time), and
>we had one project, which we had almost the exact same code, line for
>line, but we had not even as much as looked at the others screen. The
>teacher had asked us about it, I suppose due to the surprise on our
>faces, he believed us when we said we didn't copy each others work.
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>Yeah, it's very possible for two separate individuals with no contact to
>come up with similar works.
Hm... Well, i'm going to have to disagree with you here. In a programming class, when
everyone is working on the same problem and (ideally) they all know the same stuff,
having that kind of "exact similarity" is *not* an impossibility. Now, out in the real
world, dealing with things like stories, worlds, games and other creative works,
having that kind of similarity is *much* more unlikely. This is all, of course, IMO.
-TM the DM
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