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- From: wollny@cns.mpg.de wollny@cns.mpg.de
- Subject: [Patents] Re: Re: source vs binary.
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:12:29 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jean-Jacques de Jong wrote:
> Nick Fleming wrote:
> >
> > Why should there be a distinction between binary and source ?
> > Many languages are interpreted rather than compiled, and
> > modern executables usually contain enough debugging information
> > to be viewed + understood (if not completely) with a dissassembler.
>
> Simply because source code is human readable whereas binary code is not.
It may be difficult for humans to read binary code, but one can translate
it to a more readable form (and a real may even understand the plain
hex-code for some special machine). Many device drivers under i.e. linux
exist only due to such process also known as reverse engineering.
"source" and "binary" describe only a state of abstraction of the
description of an algorithm.
- [Patents] Re: Re: source vs binary., wollny
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