D vs. C#

[Roberto Mariottini]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Ary Manzana wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> To force developers to distribute their sources excludes a big part 
>>>> of the software world as it is today.
>>>
>>> Not the Java world - decompilers are common and effective.
>>
>> You can obfuscate the bytecode, which makes it very difficult to 
>> analyze and change it. (check for example ProGuard)
> 
> 
> ProGuard just renames the identifiers. A source code obfuscator can do 
> the same thing.

Well, ProGuard is a bit more advanced, but obviously a source code 
obfuscator can _always_ do more.
A source code obfuscator, by the way, is much more complex than ProGuard.

Ciao