Article View: gnu.misc.discuss
Article #75622Re: Outlawing code disassembly
From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 1990 18:04
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 1990 18:04
14 lines
1578 bytes
1578 bytes
In article <CHITTAMU.90Jun25225224@dino.cs.umass.edu> chittamu@dino.cs.umass.edu (Satish Chittamuru) writes: Yes, but do the 124,000 lines of cobol do the same amount/degree/level of work that 124,000 lines of C/Elisp do? Probably not, but it is probably within a factor of 5. The point that I'm trying to make is that large businesses deal with systems that are enormous (hundreds or thousands of programs, each 100,000+ lines are not uncommon -- insurance companies typically hire *thousands* of programmers), and so the universe of hacker software is irrelevant to them, both because it does not suit their needs and because there is so little of it. The result is that those who sell to large businesses have no concern for their reputation among hackers. Dale
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<DRW.90Jun26110417@hermite.mit.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!math.mit.edu!drwReferences:
<DRW.90Jun25215806@pascal.mit.edu> <CHITTAMU.90Jun25225224@dino.cs.umass.edu>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b6ac7bd9f7cbdc9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-06-26 11:25:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!math.mit.edu!drw From: drw@hermite.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Outlawing code disassembly Message-ID: <DRW.90Jun26110417@hermite.mit.edu> Date: 26 Jun 90 18:04:17 GMT References: <DRW.90Jun25215806@pascal.mit.edu> <CHITTAMU.90Jun25225224@dino.cs.umass.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Distribution: gnu Organization: MIT Dept. of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, USA Lines: 14 Posted: Tue Jun 26 19:04:17 1990 In-Reply-To: chittamu@dino.cs.umass.edu's message of 26 Jun 90 02:52:24 GMT