[buug] source code obfuscators

[Brian Sobolak]

Jon McClintock said:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:25:50PM -0800, Bob Read wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    Anyone out there have any experience with source
>> code obfuscators in any language?
>>    There are a few on freshmeat.net that look good,
>> such as POBS (for perl):
>>
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pobs/
>>
>>    The reason I'm asking is I'd really like to let
>> other people recompile my C, perl, java source
>> code...but I don't want them to be able to see my
>> source code.
>
> Anything that is done automatically, can be quickly and easily undone
> automatically. This is especially true of the scripted languages like
> perl and Java.

You're all familiar with the classis essay "How to write unmaintainable
code", right?

http://www.mindprod.com/unmain.html

brian


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