I'm New Here

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sun Jul 22 00:45:30 UTC 2001


"Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de> is widely believed to have written:

> Frank wrote:

> > And also a problem with almost every Smalltalk if you use
> > an image for deployment - it is decompilable - so you give
> > potentially your sources away.
> 
> This argument surely doesn't hold. You can decompile everything (even your
> translated code) and the only difference is that selectors, temps and
> instance variables give you a pretty good idea what some class is going to
> do.

While all this is true, don't forget that you can simply remove the
decompiler; end of source code exposure problem.

Translating to C/blah/Fortran/SNOBOL/Trac provides no special advantage
either; all that is need is to dress up plugins and project files and
image segments as dlls. Nobody (except those of us that actually
understand the world) would know any different.

Problem solved. That'll be $200k please.

tim

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