On May 27, 2010, at 00:20 , Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On May 26, 2010, at 23:23 , C. McCann wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Ben Lippmeier <b...@ouroborus.net> wrote:
While we can all acknowledge the technical impossibility of identifying the original source language of a piece of code...

Uh,

∀p (PieceOfCode(p) -> CanIdentifySourceLanguage(p))
is clearly false, while
∃p (PieceOfCode(p) -> CanIdentifySourceLanguage(p))
is clearly true.

Natural language does a rather poor job of making quantification unambiguous.

If you really want to get jiggy with the corner cases, ask what counts as a transformation.


And the best, if obsolescent, example of all:  cfront.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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