Deliberate obfuscation: who needs it?
Posted Apr 10, 2005 10:15 UTC (Sun) by
hppnq (subscriber, #14462)
In reply to:
Deliberate obfuscation: who needs it? by rknop
Parent article:
Protect Your Source Code: Obfuscation 101 (O'ReillyNet)
However, that's the exception more often than the rule.
Agreed! I have written my share of really bad stuff, so I know. ;-)
What you're basically saying is that writing a sizeable amount of complicated code does not only demand good enough programming powers (knowledge of algorithms, data structures etc.), but also requires proper maintenance (version control, patch management etc).
Not unlike how the Linux kernel is developed. ;-)
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