From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Date: 2000/10/15 Message-ID: <8sd7dh$cps$1@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 681820045 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <39E436F8.A11E1842@bton.ac.uk> <8sb2d2$hnb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 971645169 13116 193.250.72.110 (15 Oct 2000 21:26:09 GMT) Organization: Adalog X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 2000 21:26:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-15T21:26:09+00:00 List-Id: "Robert Dewar" a �crit dans le message news: 8sb2d2$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 ;-) -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog