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Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> I was thinking something similar; Whitespace (or a variant) would be a great 
> language to use to hide some program in plain sight. For instance, you could 
> distribute some open source Ada software for a game, but have a program 
> embedded within it to do something totally different. However, this 
> capability only seems useful for various sorts of criminals -- I can't think 
> of anything legitimate to do with it.

Dissidents in oppressive regimes? Or distributing the "amnesty 
international software distribution" around the world? (Of course, from 
the regimes' standpoint, a dissident is worse than a criminal, and amnesty 
international is is not better ...)



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