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- From: fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu
- Subject: Re: Uglifier (was Re: Real Programmers)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.232933.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>
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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- References: <1992Dec15.170343.10342@craycos.com> <DODD.92Dec15142737@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu> <gay.724466320@sfu.ca> <1992Dec16.025109.24541@coe.montana.edu> <BzC6n8.J2G@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:29:33 GMT
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- In article <BzC6n8.J2G@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
- [...]
- > Hmmm ...
- > did any one ever made a source code uglifier, a filter removing
- > all comments, renaming all variables as A1,A2,... (*), removing all
- > extra spaces, replacing character constants with Holleriths, etc?
- > It could be a useful tool after all! Sometimes you do not want to
- > give away your sources, you would like to give only the binaries
- > but that's impractical ... this would be a brilliant intermediate
- > solution, give uglified code! :-)
-
- The Fortran output produced by Mortran (at least the earlier versions)
- comes pretty close. :-(
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