"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> a �crit dans le message news: 8sb2d2$hnb$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Reminds me of a code obfuscator I once saw for COBOL that
> replaced all variable names with 30 character strings consisting
> entirely of O's and 0's (letter oh and digit zero).
>
> Of course you can still do *that* in Ada which is a reminder
> that if you are determined to obfuscate, then the language
> cannot stop you, so the argument with a's and A's above is
> a little bit bogus :-)
>
Of course, a code obfuscator for Ada could go far beyond what can be done in other languages, with clever use of overloading (all
subprograms called A unless they share a profile), redefining operators, etc.... Another proof that Ada is *far* above other
languages ;-)

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