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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
Not the complicated software that anyone would bother trying
to patent of course, but going through and running the
contents of a simple program by hand (like "Hello World" in
C), it is a great way to learn some assembly language. Or if
you are talking about before the compiler, most programmers
have probably run pieces of software by hand, simply because
it is sometimes the easiest way to debug something.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 10:08 PM EDT |
(Christenson)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 03:32 AM EDT |
How else do you know if it does what it's supposed to?
I can run *very complicated* software by hand (if it's sufficiently cleanly
written...).
Any professional *debugger* will spend half their time running software by hand.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 05:44 AM EDT |
He executed algorithms on paper tape, in his head!
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 01:46 PM EDT |
Wow guys, I didn't realize this was a common practice. Good to know.
I was more going for running the individual bits and bytes of machine code by
hand, but it occurs to me now that even running a high level language by hand is
a good counter-argument to software patents.
After all, it does not have to be "transformed" by a computer to be
run, it is independent of the processor.
Anyone want to help formulate this idea into an argument against software
patents?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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