Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:17:44 08/23/05
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On August 23, 2005 at 05:58:49, Keith Hyams wrote: >I have been following the debate on cloning with interest. A substantial amount >of every modern program is a cut and paste job. Programmers,whether they realise >it or not, put pieces of code written by other people into their programs. There is a difference. putting piece of code written by other people is not cut and paste job. certainly programmers use code written by other people when they have the following line in their program: #include <stdio.h> It is not copy and paste. copy and paste is simply copy by ctrl+C and paste by ctrl+V or doing something equivalent. Programmers may also do some small copy and paste and it is going to be considered not cloning by most people and I believe that almost nobody care if a programmer copied a function to count time from another free source program by copy and paste. Uri
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