Author: James Swafford
Date: 12:46:03 08/23/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 07:30:48, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 22, 2005 at 06:44:05, Peter Eizenhammer wrote: > >>Crafty re-written in whatever language you choose will still >>>be crafty... >> >>I think that in the last case there is no agreement. >> >>Fabien replied me by email that based on his opinion I am free to use the ideas >>but not the code verbatim(copy/paste). (Uri) >> >>I am absolutely sure there is agreement. >>The idea, that you could call a fruit rewritten in Pascal Movie >>is so ridiculous that nobody could even be aware that you would think so. > >I do not think that the idea is ridiculous. > >Note also that I do not plan to use pascal and you can be sure that default >personality of movei will not identical to another program not in the search and >not in the evaluation. > >If I decide to use the same algorithm of fruit inside the code of Movei then I >will call it fruit's personality of Movei. > > >>This cannot be what Fabien thought, and I am sure you know that, too. > >I do not read thinking and translating fruit to pascal is an hard process so I >am not sure about the thoughts of fabien about it. > >It seems to me absurd if programmers who understand something cannot use it but >only look at it. > >To summerize my opinion: >1)I am for understanding and using the knowledge you understood. >2)I am against copying without understanding. >3)usually clones are based on copying without understanding so I am against >them(I cannot prove that no understanding was done but usually copy and paste of >big code is not done with understanding so I am against it). >4)Copying a code to different language is almost a proof of understanding. >It is not exactly a proof because in theory it is possible to start by writing a >program to translate every C program to Pascal program but I know of nobody who >did it so I guess that it is an extremely hard task. It's called a compiler. Translate code in language X ==> language Y. I'd bet Pascal --> C compilers exists, or at least a chain of compilers that can be strung together to give the same result. So, I think copying from one language to another is proof of nothing. -- James > >Uri
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