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Originally Posted by kacir
When you write a program in AutoLisp and you want to prevent other people from reading the program you simply strip all the CR/LF characters (make it one long line), replace tabs (used for formatting) with spaces and then replace every occurrence of more than one consecutive space with one space. When you replace all the variable names with some A1, A1, A3, B1 meaningless names, it is guaranteed that nobody will be able to understand your program without LOTS of effort, especially when the program is long ;-)
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An old friend programs in APL. At one job, they had to send their code to someone else to run. Since APL was interpreted, they had to send source, and there were issues about intellectual property. His solution was to simply strip the comments. The lawyers looked at the result and pronounced it object code, and okay to circulate outside the company.
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By the way, do you know the GNU Emacs text editor?
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Eighty
Megabytes
And
Constantly
Swapping?
Yes, and an assortment of things like it. In normal usage, I'm more likely to use vi.
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Dennis