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Posted Apr 18, 2012 15:43 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Not Again by tjc
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Then makers of competing preprocessors would quickly get sued, and so on.


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Posted Apr 18, 2012 16:18 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Not if the copyrighted API symbols were part of the input. We would all have to carry around keyword translation lists sewn into the liners of our jackets. This proposition is only slightly more absurd than Oracles actual claim.

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Posted Apr 18, 2012 16:50 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Ah, back to the golden era of quilt-driven programming. Those were the days.

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