Author: Mike Thatcher
Date: 03:48:38 08/23/05
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On August 23, 2005 at 06:17:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>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
Thank you Uri. I was speaking metaporically in order to put a more interesting
point into a context.
Keith
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