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It'll be the other way

It'll be the other way

Posted Apr 24, 2009 1:08 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: It'll be the other way by jzbiciak
Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

You assume that there are always multiple sensible ways of representing the code. If you hit a case where this isn't true, you either end up writing obfuscated code in order to avoid direct copying or you potentially end up with an awkward lawsuit. Safer to just clean room it.


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