On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 12:11:34 PM UTC-7, William wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Francesco Biscani > <blues...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > On 11 June 2015 at 20:13, Travis Scrimshaw <tsc...@ucdavis.edu > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >> Difficult-to-dechiper can be considered a pro by bigger businesses > with > >> proprietry software to help prevent reverse-engineering (although from > what > >> I've been told, they typically run it through a scrambler before > compiling > >> the code for release). > > > > > > Not sure what you mean by that. I have worked in the past for a > > multinational company (>100k employees) on software which costs hundreds > of > > thousands of dollars per license, and never heard of that. I am not an > > assembly guy but I would think that the binary of a non-trivial software > is > > already scrambled well enough (especially in release mode where the > compiler > > is gonna pull all sorts of tricks for optimisation). >
I think it's now something the compilers do automatically, in particular in release mode, because, as you said, it does all sorts of crazy optimizations. It was something my (old school) C++ programmer professor told me once. > It's officially called "The Wolfram Language" [1] beating out [2] many > other options such as "Wolframese, Wolframic, Wolframian, Wolframish > or Wolframaic, perhaps Wolfese, Wolfic or Wolfish, Wolfian or Wolfan > or Wolfatic, ,the exotic Wolfari or Wolfala? Wolvese or Wolvic? > WolframCode or WolframScript—or Wolfcode or Wolfscript—but these sound > either too obscure or too lightweight. Then there’s the somewhat > inelegantWolframLang, or it shorter forms WolfLang and WolfLan, which > sound too much like Wolfgang. Then there are names like WolframX and > WolfX, but it’s not clear the “X” adds much. > Adding "X" makes it look cool. Same with a "Z". Oh, should we change our name to SageX, SageZ, Zage, Sag3, S4ge 54g3, S4g3, Z4g3, Sag3M4th, or (really FTW and the 1337): 54g3|\/|4+|-| Then, Stephen and Al Gore can fight over who invented what. > Wouldn't that be an inconvienent truth.. Best, Travis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
