From: rweather@zip.com.au (Rhys Weatherley)
Subject: [TUHS] Lexical comparator, was Re: the battle against SCO
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:46:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309161046.49958.rweather@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030915224853.GA27957@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:48 am, Warren Toomey wrote:
> While we're on the topic, I saw esr's code shredder/comparator that works
> on lines of code. This isn't going to work if variables get renamed etc.
I'd like to point out that the more steps that are taken to factor out
identifier names, whitespace conventions, etc, the closer you approach a
situation where the tool says "both programs are written in the same
programming language" or "both programs use binary searching somewhere in
their code". Which, while true, isn't terribly useful to know. A human
being still needs to wade through the results and inspect them manually.
Cheers,
Rhys Weatherley.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-16 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-15 20:39 [TUHS] Fwd: Helping in " Norman Wilson
2003-09-15 22:48 ` [TUHS] Lexical comparator, was " Warren Toomey
2003-09-16 0:46 ` Rhys Weatherley [this message]
2003-09-18 2:56 ` [TUHS] Lexical comparator Warren Toomey
2003-09-16 3:01 ` [TUHS] Fwd: Helping in the battle against SCO M. Warner Losh
2003-09-16 0:02 [TUHS] Lexical comparator, was " Norman Wilson
2003-09-16 1:35 ` Robert Brockway
2003-09-16 3:10 ` M. Warner Losh
2003-09-16 2:11 Norman Wilson
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