2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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whack
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS , GOSMACS and
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Java), to. ..modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works. (See
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whacker. ) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if
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the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glark ing
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things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change
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all stderr writes to stdout writes in a piece of C filter code which remains
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otherwise mysterious.
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