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From: cme@cloud9.UUCP (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: ... why not an 'obfuscate' tool for C instead?
Message-ID: <2204@cloud9.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 14:55:09 GMT
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References: <eB93d#29Vk4y=eric@golux.UUCP> <931@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
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In article <931@goofy.megatest.UUCP>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
> From article <eB93d#29Vk4y=eric@golux.UUCP>, by eric@golux.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond):
> 
> > NAME
> >    obfuscate -- code obfuscator for semi-secure source code distribution
> Perhaps we should have a contest to see who can write the best version
> of this... "The Obfuscating C Contest."


Hmmm.

As a fan of PASCAL, who uses C only when he has to,
I've been convinced for years that this program exists
and has been in use -- perhaps since the creation of C.  :-)

(before you flame -- I'm an old BCPL hacker -- love it --
just prefer strict type checking, typed pointers, ....)

--Carl