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Re:An open letter to Richard M. Stallman by SupNoob on Sunday January 11, 2015 @10:10AM (#8870139)
> Maybe RMS, with his experience of AI research (iirc), > has a different view.

RMS primarily uses C and Lisp. Lisp source code is a tree already. And C is so simple you can get by with tags and such.

If he was a C++/Java/C# programmer (which he is not) he may have a different feeling on the importance of the AST relative to the risk of Microsoft using gcc with VisualStuio to offer advanced features while by-passing the GPL.

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Re:An open letter to Richard M. Stallman by omega_rythm on Sunday January 11, 2015 @02:49PM (#8871011)
Of course, but even with lisp you can't (programmatically) work on the code without having that code representation. If it's trivial, then there's no harm in opening it, but RMS thinks otherwise, so there must be something else.
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