Author: Keith Hyams
Date: 03:55:11 08/23/05
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On August 23, 2005 at 06:48:38, Mike Thatcher wrote:
>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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