Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
by zura on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:29AM
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Btw, I remember there was a law stating that the code less than 10(?) lines is not copyright-able, no?
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Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
by IgorPartola on Monday August 04, 2014 @02:26PM
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My first reaction was to say "it should be based on the number of CPU/GPU/*PU instructions". But then, there are things like this: http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html. I wonder how much actual new-ness you can pack into, say, 100 instructions on a modern CPU.
Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
by voidlogic on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:10PM
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That would be a a silly rule, for better or worse 10 lines of Haskell might perform the computation of 500 line of Java (even if they took you the same amount of time to write.. heh).
Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
by zura on Monday August 04, 2014 @02:17PM
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Well, maybe they made this rule in days when COBOL was in hype? ;)
Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
by tekknolagi on Monday August 04, 2014 @02:03PM
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Or, say, Befunge...
Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C
by Alupis on Monday August 04, 2014 @05:29PM
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Wrong -- Google lost the first of the Android/Java battles to Oracle for 9 lines of "copy/pasted" range check code.[1][2][3]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951575
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951480
[3] http://www.theverge.com/android/2012/5/9/3010404/judge-denie...